The Film Daily (1919)

Fridi February 7, 1919 DAILY <* simoom ■ ■ MMMf w^^ i W™n|r Vol. VII No. 37 Friday, February 7, 1919 Price 5 Cents 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 ^«second-class matter May 21, 1918, at the pIKoffice 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, $5.00; 3 months, $3.00. Foreign $20.00. I 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 Cuts and Flashes "Doug'' Fairbanks has just sent two mountain ponies to W. G. McAdoo. First showing "Once to Every Man", Frohman special, New York Roof at 2 today. Priscilla Dean's latest has been changed from "Rose of the Night" to "The Wicked Darling." Catherine Calvert's latest for Keeney, ' Marriage for Convenience", will be released through Sherry service Feb. 9. The Annual dinner of the American Projection Society is to be held April 12 at the Hotel Pennsylvania. Joe LaRose is worried lest there won't be room enough. Local Option Proposed for Each Community in State for Sunday Pictures. Albany — Senator Foley has introduced a bill vesting in the governing bodies of towns, cities or counties the power to decide for themselves whether or no exhibition of motion pictures will be permitted on Sunday after two o'clock in the afternoon. To Write Human Interest Series. Karl Kitchen, special writer for the Sunday World will leave today for Los Angeles where he will spend five or six weeks writing a series of articles on the stars, how they live and how they make pictures. Mr. Kitchen wishes it made known that he is not going to write an "expose" of conditions around studios. The series will number 12 articles and will appear in the Sunday World's magazine section. Nutting Producing Montreal. — Merrick R. Nutting is advertising for stars and performers for a serial picture to be produced here some time in March and to be entitled 'All Canadian". The first episodes will be released at the Tivoli and Mount Royal Theaters and the whole serial will later be sent on its travels throughout the Dominion. Goldwyn Signs With Stoll for Great Britain. For a second year Goldwyn pictures will be distributed in Great Britain exclusively by the Stoll Film Co.., Ltd. George King, representing Mr. Stoll and Jeffrey Bernerd, the managing director of the Stoll Film Co., Ltd., have been in the United States since November. Pioneer Film plans to open offices wherever necessary to handle their product. The Rialto • orchestra has presented Hugo Riesenfeld, musical dir— for and newly appointed managing director, V. lo\ u channiii^ chiming chronometer, which strikes a different series of chime-chords every half hour. Also it is said to tell entirely correct time. National Association held another important meeting — had lunch. Hal Roach certainly deserves credit for his success made against terrible odds. To begin with, he was born in Elmira, N. Y. Afterwards he was a mail carrier in Alaska until he froze his feet. Then he went to California to get thawed out and got a job as an exffS in a studio. He then became assistant director and finally director and producer. Sounds like a novel. are we to know just what terms were applied to the stage centuries ago when the stage was as young as the movies (pardon me) moving pictures are? A story says that May Allison took a lot of lemons and limes and "other well tried cures" for seasickness when she sailed to Catalina. It didn't say what the other "well tried cures" were. I'd like to know, 'cause lemons and limes are simply wasted on me and I want to go to Staten Island. Well! Well! all this fuss from Metro about how Harry Franklin raves over "hee-yoo-ti-ful-lovely, bloomin' California." Why I remember when he stood on the bank of the Hudson river and throwin' his arms up cried, "This is the most beautiful place tin earth" — and it was in Yonkers, too. Frank E. Woods, Supervising Director of the Paramount Vine Street studio is a "conscientious" objector to the word "movies." He says that people do not speak of the stage as "talkies" or "speakies." But Frank — how Harry Van Meter says he's played villians to nearly every feminine star on the coast and has always been "foiled." What's the use of bavin' a villian if vou can't "foil" him? Could you say that Fatty Arbuckle had been "thrown in" with some fine society? We miss the German beer, but "Gotterdamerung" is still with us. It will always be first aid to the Sundayschool teacher strugglin' with his collar button. Charlie Ray is havin' the time of his life buyin' furniture for his new home in Beverly Hills. He says it's goin' to be artistic. It's goin' to be a great year for villains. Pearl White is goin' to have a flock of 'em in her next serial. Bebe Daniels began her stage career at the age of ten weeks in "Jane." She says while it wasn't a speakin' part, still it was very important. What's that McAdoo says abc a "trust"? Building Business How Universal Put Feature 01 Big in Chicago. (Special to WID'S DAILY) Chicago— Here is the way U versal put over "The Wildcat Paris" in Chicago, the Casino doi " over $3,554 business in a week, t • house seating but 283. A week prior to the opening of ( " show an intensive newspaper car" paign was put on. It is understo about $2,000 was expended gradu ing from $50 a day to $500. T result was that despite strong co petition the little house cleaned with the Priscilla Dean feature. Louis Laemmle is the princi| stockholder of the Casino and M Elsie Cohen is the house manage The fact that a house with such small seating capacity could ham srch a volume of business has caus much comment in film circles. Suggests Free Will Offering. Hartford, Conn.— Rev. Herbert White, pastor of the Hartford Bs tist Church, while he approves "movies" being run on Sunda does not approve of charging an i mittance fee, as this is said to breaking of the law, but suggei that a free will offering be made and 'OLD BILL asks why I a the hit of three —