The Film Daily (1919)

Thursday, February 6, 1919 DAILY V il. Ill do. 36 (Thursday, February 6, 1819 frloe 5 CmU Copyright 1918, Wid's Film and Film Folks, Inc. Published Daily at 71-73 West 44th St., New York, N. Y. by WID'S FILMS and FILM FOLKS, Inc. F. C. ("Wid") Gunning, President and Treasurer ; Lynde Denig, Editor ; Joseph Dannenberg, Vice-President and Managing Editor : J. W. Alicoate, Secretary and Business Manager. Entered as second-class matter May 21, 1918, at the post office at New York, N. Y., under the act of March 3, 1879. Terms (Postage free) United States, Outside of Greater New York, $10.00 one year; 6 months, J5.00 ; 3 months, $3.00. Foreign $20.00. Subscribers should remit with order Address all communications to WID'S DAILY, 71-73 West 44th St., New York, N. Y. Telephone: Vanderbilt 4551-2 More Censors. Newark, N. J. — East Orange may have a board of censors for motion piqtures. The creation of such a board has been recommended by Mayor Martens. A similar movement to have screen plays reviewed before they are exhibited in the city failed several years ago. He expressed a determination to put the project through this time. Cuts and Flashes Marguerite Clark taking a rest, having finished "Mrs. Wiggs". Katherine Adams supports Earle Williams in "A Gentleman of Quality." Julian Johnson of Photoplay Magazine is back from Chicago, to office permanently in New York. "Mitch" Lewis' 'Children of Banishment" for Select release has been finished. G. R. Carrier, International Film, bound for Syria on relief ship, to snap for the news weekly. Has 775,000 feet of film to use. W. Christy Cabanne intended coming East when he was signed by Goldwyn to direct Mabel Normand in one picture. Charles Giblyn, Director General of the Selznick Pictures Corp. has completed the cast which will support Olive Thomas in her first production for this company, "Upstairs and Down". The production will be ' completed by the middle of March. Has anybody heard anything from "Bennie" and "Hi?" Petitions. Yakima, Wash. — Petitions favoring Sunday movies and those opposing them are being secured. Thus far most of the petitions are from congregations of the churches here. Universal Buys Veiller Story. Universal has purchased a story written by Bayard Veiller, author of "Within the LawT and "The 13th Chair" and which will be used for Priscilla Dean. Clever Publicity Stunt. Famous Players-Lasky have arranged with the subway, elevated and car advertising companies to run a card telling of an arrangement with the New York Herald whereby the^ Herald gives rotogravure pictures of Famous Players stars free with the Sunday edition. The stars whose pictures are being offered free thus far are Elsie Ferguson, Marguerite Clark, William S. Hart, Douglas Fairbanks, and Dorothy Dalton. Catching School Children. First National has arranged for a showing of "Our Teddy" to the children of Public School No. 165, on Saturday morning at the 81st street Theater. Blotters as circulars have been arranged for distribution among the children. The admission price is ten cents. No Date Set. Chicago — No date as yet has been fixed for the holding of the National Exhibitors Assoc, convention. Donald Crisp knows so much about types, that he managed to detect a couple of real burglars. He knows so much about actin' that he managed to keep them from bein' suspicious of him. He knows so much about the value of time that he managed to round up a policeman in the shortest time on record. He knows so much about publicity that he managed to tell us about it. Bert Lytell met an old man in California that had lived many years in Napa County. Bert, said he guessed the old man knew that part of th* country prety well. "Well— pretty well", said the old man. "Lived here all your life?" asks Bert. "No", said the old cut-up, "not yit." Wonder who pays the biggest life insurance, Fairbanks, Mix, Walsh, Polo or Larkin. Chase Herendeen has bobbed her hair and joined the motion picture colony at Hollywood. _ Maxwell Karger says that pictures like hay should be made while th» sun shines. Metro actors workin' for Edwin Carewe can always count on ha>in* Tuesday nights off 'cause that's the night he and Danny Hogan go to Jack Doyle's Vernon Arena, pictures or no pictures. Don't wonder that Madge Kennedy wants to play "The Willow Tree". She's ideal for it. Bert Lytell reminds us that after al] it's been a big year for ice water, since the hotels have taken on girls for bell boys. A new Paramount Bray-Picto* graph shows how sugar is refined in the West Indies. The sugar is more refined than the refiners. They're doin' some more "loanin' " out West. Tom Ince has loaned Douglas MacLean to Lila Lee. Why do they try to make actors do impossible things! Here they are spendin' two weeks tryin' to make Edwin Stevens dance awkwardly. It just can't be done, that's all. They do say Paramount has ob« Warwick. In the Open Man "The Real Roosevelt" Sfl Gaumont reports active pil of the two reel feature "Thj Rosevelt". Gordon-Mayer H for New England, Gardiner cate, Buffalo, for New York: exclusive of Long Island anS York City. Electric Theater jj Co., Philadelphia, Pa., for If Pennsylvania, Southern Nei First National Exhibitors E burgh, Pa., for Western vania and West Virginia. Film Attractions, Inc., Wash" D. C, for Delaware, Marylaj of C, and Virginia and manyf Rapf Sales. Harry Rapf has just sc rights of "The Accidental j moon" and "The Struggle E< ing", to Joseph Goodstein, c ver, for Colorado, Wyoming and New Mexico. Anita Stewart Songs. Waterson, Berlin & Snyde taken over the rights to the| cation of all Anita Stewart positions, and they will leased automatically hereafte eaoji new production. W! Woden/d will handle the S songs and expects to intere hibitors in his olans relative compositions. THE i\ BETTER OLEl and 'OLE BILL asks