The Film Daily (1919)

Monday, May 12, 1919 ^r Vol. VIII No. 40 Monday, May 12, 1919 Price 5 Cents Copyright 1919, 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, 1S79. 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. Subscribers should remit with order Address all communications to WID'S DAILY, 71-73 West 44th St., New York, N. Y. Telephone: Vanderbilt 4551-4552-5558 l.os Angeles Office: 605-606-607 Wright & <;illender Bldg., Telephone Broadway 3889. Hollywood, Cal, Office: 217-218 Hollywood National Bank Bldg., 6404 Hollywood Blvd., Telephone, Hollywood 1603. Incorporations Albany, N. Y. — Projection Optics Co., Inc., $5,000; Rochester; manufacturing projection optical lenses; William Fouquet, William H. Repp, Frank Kirchgessner, Rochester, New York. Albany, N. Y. — Triar Amusement Co., operating in New York City, $10,000. Incorporators— H. Richter, James C. Bradford and B. L. Miller. 729— 7th Ave. This company whose activities have already been noted, and of which Gerald Gallagher is general manager, will operate three houses in Rockaway. The reason why Priscilla Dean is now called "The Exhibitor's Star" is because the exhibitors discovered her. aft«M DAILY Cuts And Flashes Jack Mulhall has been engaged i rich in an oil well in wrnch he is into play with Emmy Wehlen in terested. "Fools and Their Money." Metro's June program shows four comedies. Vera Steadman will be seen in leads in L-Ko comedies. Isaac Wolper, president of Mayflower, spent the week-end in Boston. Ralph Kettering, publicity man for Jones, Linick & Schaefer, of Chicago, has returned from a months vacation in the South. "The Shepherd of the Hills" Harold Bell Wright's new film, will open at the Randolph, Chicago, next Sunday. S. J. Kaufman will prepare 10 scenarios for Selznick pictures. Jackie Saunders is on her way to New York from the Coast. Another Woman Urges Censorship Montgomery, Ala. — After an attack by Mrs. Warren D. Hall, of Coosada, Ala., on "immoral and filthy" pictures similar to the O'Grady attack in New York, R. B. Wilby of the Strand and H. C. Farley of the Empire entered the fight and asked her to answer 14 questions, along the lines of the A. M. P. A. Up to date she has not answered the questions. Pierre C. Levy, well known Texas Utica, N. Y. — Colonial to remodel exhibitor, is said to have struck it I front for store purposes. Listen to Ruth Clifford's description of her ideal leadin' man. "He must be well groomed, tall, lithe and graceful. I prefer a blonde in the beginning, well cooked under a slow sun until he becomes a brunette. His clothes should not fit him as though they were built by a sail maker on spec. He must dance superbly and look like an Apollo. I don't want him 'beautiful' nor do I want him unattractive. To 'get over' a man must have a polish and gloss that makes an impression for him." (These orders are gettin' more complicated every day.) Mary MacLaren says she is famous because she never claimed to be one of the original Floradora Sextette. S. S. Hutchinson enjoys the distinction of bein' the nrst business man to inspire the Japanese fans to letter writing. The famous Oasis bar at Universal City that served so long and so well as a "saloon set" is bein' torn down. Indiana Notes (Special to WID'S DAILY. ) Frank J. Rembusch last week purchased the building occupied by the Blackstone theater at Martinsville. As a result of the deal Rembusch now owns two theaters at that place, the other being the Grace. He intends to change the name of the Blackstone to that of "Maxine" in honor of his daughter. A new $100,000 theater and building is to be erected in Anderson by Fred E. Mustard and Neal M. McCullough. Robert H. Harris, manager of the Harris-Grand and Princess, Bloomington, is contemplating extensive improvements in the near future. The K. & S. Film Co. is the name of a new firm at Gary to buy state rights. The company is capitalized at $10,000 and the directors are Edward H. Kleinschmidt, Fred B. Swanson and Hcnriette A. Kleinschmidt. Sixty Red Cross nurses from Ft. Benjamin Harrison, the army post near Indianapolis, were guests of the management of English's theater and representatives of the Universal at a performance of "The Heart of Humanity." "The New Moon yy 31 just released A Norma Talmadge Picture A Chet, Withey Production Paramount goes to open this week. In the Courts In a suit of Dolly Dare Harry Grossman to recovet damages for breach of cont employment at Los Angeles year at $50 a week the A; Term of the Supreme Court cided that Grossman must before trial to enable Miss prove that the contract, wliich man denies was made. She s was entitled to $2,600 and r only $275 and earned $400 els The Fairmount Film Co. trying to recover from a l\ company for damages through the suit brought by; claiming to be a stockh which the property of the pany was attached and mount had to go to large to release a film which was a public showing, has lost an tant point in the suit becau decision in the Supreme Co the Fairmount is a foreign tion and not having a certifi mitting it to do business State it has no power to br suit. A suit for $1,000 damages representations in the sale New Parkway at 243 Sche ave., Brooklyn, has been filed Supreme Court by John B. against Abraham Bauinwalc* complaint states that the as owner of the theatre sc sell it to the plaintiff and ii to do so represented that it $140 net a week. The plaintiff 1 to buy and paid $1,000 do'j learned that the statement: ( false and that the net earning J not $140 a week or anything { He wants the money back ; contract cancelled. OuQfA Remember— When In <Joub en the nhelf— play eomethit O. E. Carpenter, Paramos pram. Salt Lake City. \