The Film Daily (1919)

Saturday, June 7, 1919 T»L TOI No. 65 Saturday, June 7, 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. t. C ("Wid") Gunning, President and Treasurer, Lynde Denig, Editor; Ben H. Grimm, Associate Editor; Joseph Dannenberg, VicePresident and Managing Editor; J. W. Alicoate, Secretary and Business Manager. Entered as second-class matter May 21, 1918, •t 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, $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 Los Angeles Office: 605-606-607 Wright & Callender Bldg., Telephone Broadway 3889. Hollywood, Cal., Office: 217-218 Hollywood National Bank Bldg., 6404 Hollywood Blvd., Telephone, Hollywood 1603. Pennsylvania Picture Legislation (Special to WW'S DAILY) Harrisburg, Pa.— The Soffel Bill seeking bond from distributors to the extent of advance deposits, is before the Senate, having passed the House. The Flynn Bill, doubling fees charged for examining films by the Censors, has also passed the House and is in the Senate. The Leiby Bill prohibiting children between 8 and 14 from attending picture shows during school hours has passed the Senate and is in the House. The Bucher Bill which would kill the Censors and appoint a License Commissioner in their place, is still in the House. Never mind about booking "The Exquisite Thief"— just SEE IT. Miss PRISCILLA DEAN will then tell you what to do. sMI DAILY Cuts And Flashes Louis Huff will start work this week for American Cinema in a script by George Middleton. Vernon Day, mayor of the Culver City, Calif., is hanging his hat at the Claridge during a visit here. The baseball game between Metro home team and exchange team will be held at Bennett Field, 181st St. tomorrow. The Macmanus Corp. production is titled "The Lost Batallion" and in the production are a number of officers and men who figured in the historic episode of Argonne Forest. Robert Ellis, who appeared opposite Olive Thomas, has been engaged by Selznick for Elaine Hammerstein's first. He is under contract for the Selznick features. The famous old Atlantic Garden and a part of the Bowery Theater, are being turned into picture theater. Historically this is the most noted theater location not only in New York but in this country. Powers Buys Land Rochester. — P. A. Powers has purchased the land on which his company is located. The deal includes about six acres. It is understood that Powers plans the erection of additional buildings to cost about $500,000. Griffith Leaves • D. W. Griffith, accompanied by Richard Barthelmess and others of his organization, will leave tomorrow for the Coast. New Theaters Lewiston, Me. — Priscilla has been opened. Phila., Pa. — G. W. Stewart plans a one-story moving picture theater 70 by 125 feet. Scobey, Mont. — Scobey is to have a $15,000 picture house. Naugatuck, Conn. — Rossi C. Cabol of the Park, has opened the Rialto. Cartersville, Ga. — Haris Cope and Whit Baggs have opened theater in the opera house here. Memphis, Tenn. — J. M. Hertel will build theater on 15th St. Building will be 50x100 ft., of brick, with capacity of 600. Cost, $30,000. Boston, Mass.— The Star Photo Co. will erect a theater at a cost of $150,000, at Humboldt Ave., Roxbury; seating capacity of 1,500. A unit organ to cost $50,000 will be installed. Benj. H. Green, president. Des Moines, la. — A building to include offices, etc., motion picture and vaudeville theater the Alhambra, will be erected at cost of $350,000, on Grand Ave. Alhambra will have capacity of 2,000. Powers Wrangle Regarding Evans Film Co. to Be Settled in Court As the result of a dispute between Thomas W. Evans and Patrick A. Powers, over the election of officers of the Evans Film Mfg. Co., on Dec. 10 last, Evans has asked Supreme Court Justice Mullan, to set aside the election of Thomas E. Donovan as President, Powers as Vice-President and Anna Feinman as Secretary, for the present year, and to direct a new election. The plaintiff alleges that the corporation was formed in 1914 with $25,000 stock. Evans, says that he and Powers each owned 111 shares of stock, held in the name of Joseph A. McKinney, who was private secretary to Powers. He states that his stock was never transferred under his own name on the company's books, after McKinney died last year. He declares that without notice to him the defendants called an election to be held on Dec. 10, and he was ousted as President, and Jos. P. McDonnell as Treasurer, but that both were permitted to act until Jan. 25, when Powers stopped payment on the checks drawn by McDonnell, at which time the corporation had deposits of $15,000. Evans said he had to borrow money to meet the payroll. Powers denies that Evans ever became' a stockholder of the corporation. He says that Evans has been in his employ in his various film enterprises since 1910. He says that in 1914, he organized the Evans company to facilitate his own private business, and furnished all the capital and money used by the corporation. He said that even if Evans had been a stockholder, and had appeared at the meeting of stockholders, he would have been outvoted, and the election would have resulted the same as it did. He said that Evans went into the army in 1917, and rendered no service to the corporation thereafter. Powers said that Evans brought this suit while he was in California on business. Replying to Powers's statement. Evans alleged that he received $300 a week from the corporation, beginning in January, 1918, and denied that he rendered no service after entering the army. He insisted that he and McDonnell organized the Evans Company and not Powers. He alleged that Powers has been interested in the Powers Film Product Co., a competitive concern, at Rochester, and that Donovan who is also connected with that concern, told him in April, that he had sold 2,000,000 feet of commercial film for the Powers Laboratory, for which the Evans Company had no opportunity to compete. He says that Powers induced him to permit the Evans Company to be used in the interest of Powers corporation, and that losses of $30,000 resulted. He said that Powers knows that he is the real owner of 111 shares of stock. Justice Mullan appointed William Bondy referee to determine the conflicting evidence in the case. Albany, N. Y. — Burtis Grand Theater Co., Syracuse, $10,000; A. Cohen, F. Bassin, A. J. Lane, Syracuse. Say "Washington" to Hunteit Lovelace, United Artists' and ; what happens. Bach Going Abroa Clarence L. Bach, president of l Johnny Dooley Film Come H plans a trip abroad to look overj*j foreign market before sell comedies. The third of the series has finished. Sophie Tucker ap] it with some members of h band. The fourth will Ik • shortly. Casting is now urn1 No plans have as yet been i di regarding domestic distribu*! However, when Dooley I'm contract at the Ziegfeld Frolic, plans to take him off the stage] keep him in films exclusively. Pierson in Town E. R. Pierson, rorrner First I tional exchange manager in Mj apolis, is at the Claridge. Uis stood that he has not yet affil; with any organization. £ asttn SOME people define a poster as a "sign to paste upon a board." — To us it is a work of art, wherewith to fill an auditorium. RITCHEY LITHO. 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