The Film Daily (1919)

r Friday, July 18, 1919 Vol. IX No. 17 Friday, Jaly 18, 1919 Price 5 Cents jM^c DAILV 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; 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, 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, $5.00; 3 months, $3.00. Foreign, $15.00. 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. Incorporations Albany, N. Y. — Maddock Enterprises, Inc., $20,000; New York, theatrical and moving pictures; Charles B. Maddock, Max Hart, Nellie Fallon, 1482 Broadway. Albany, N. Y.— Old Plays and Players, Inc., motion pictures, etc., $50,000; W. I. N. Lofland, Frank Jackson, Charles H. Jones, of Dover. Albany, N. Y. — Famous Playwrights, Inc., New York, theaters; $1,000,000; H. Harris, H. G. Wiley, A. Present, 501 Fifth Ave. Read What New York Critics Say: A new seriej; of comedies built around the characters of "The Hall Room Boys" starts off ausI)i(ioTisly with "How They Do It on .%8 Per." Flannigan and Edwards, erstwhile vau<levillians, give good account of their comedy gifts in the title role. The tirst of a series of come dies, called "The Ha 11 Koom Hoys,' was shown. It is called "How The\ Do It on $8 Per." It is not i m anim ated cartoon. for f: annig an and Edw ards, the vaudeville team. are seen as Percy and Ferdie. It IS amus ing. The "Hall-Room Boys" are as funny on the screen as they are on paper and the Strand Topical Review is >imisually interesting. The overture is Supi)e's "Pique Dame" conducted by Carl Edouarde. The First of a Series of the "HALL ROOM BOYS" Comedies played the STRAND THEATRE. X. Y.. Week of July 13th ]More than .50 newspapers throughout the country are running "THE HALT; R00:M BOYS" cartoons daily, bringing these humorous figures to the attention of millions of people. Bear in mind the big national newspaper advertising value behind these comedies, backed by more genuine advertising than any other pictures on the market. A two-reeler every other week. Produced by XxiTIONAL FILM CORP. OF CAL. Distributing arrangemeuts pending. JACK & HARRY COHN, 1583 Broadway, New York City One of the most interesting numliers on the Strand bill, "How They Do It on $S Per," with Flannigan and Edwards, the first of a series of comedies based on H. A. MacGilTs drawings of "The Hall Room Boys," causes laughter. The first of the series of the "Hall Room Boy s" c jmedies. which was sh own, sets a good preced ent i 'or those to follow. "Hall Room Boys" at Strand Those lovable scamps, "Percy and Ferdie." whose adventures are set forth daily in "The Evening Sun," are put on the screen this week at the Strand. In "Tliey Do It on S Per," the first of the "Hall Room Boys," as the series is called, the National Film Company has caught the spirit of H. A. MacGill, originator of the comic, admirably. Flannigan and Edwards, vaudeville actors, have the leading parts. Percy and Ferdie have sauntered forth from their hall room to mingle with society, as is their wont. When they learn that a society bud they have met desires a certain sort Of ribbon they inform her they "are dealers in ribbons" and set out to obtain the desired article. They enter at night the department store where they work, are locked in by chance, and after failing to make their eseai)e retire in twin beds which have been placed on display in a show window. The morning sees them attracting a great crowd. They are chased l).v the manager and jeered by their associates until the owner of the store appears to thank them for the greatest advertisement the place ever had. S21V^ "The Heart of Humanity" made goo"d the other day for a theater in a town of only 220 people. Here's a picture that could play in a desert and pack the house. Sunday Shows in Connecticut Middletown, Conn. — City Council voted 7 to 4 for Sunday pictures. The Middletown Federation of Churches has been fighting the movement. Southington, Conn. — -To hold special meeting of voters to pass on Sunday shows. Pathe Branch in Little Rock Little Rock, Ark. — Fred C. Quimby, Pathe, now on a tour of the United States has opened a new branch office for Pathe here. The Little Rock territory will consist of the entire States of Arkansas, the Northwestern part of Mississippi and Western Tennessee, also Dunklin and Pemiscot Counties in the Southern part of Missouri. V. H. Hodupp will be appointed manager. He entered this organization in May, 1914, Recently he has been visiting the various Pathe Exchanges to promote better service for exhibitors. Anita Stewart's Next Anita Stewart's organization has secured the film rights to Caroline Lockhart's novel, "The Fighting Shepherdess," and will make most of the scenes in Bayshore Long Island, where her home is. We Place Insurance for Selznick Pictures Corp. [Watch this Space for Others I AN OUNCE OF PREVENTION IS WORTH A POUND OF CURE Don't wait with your insurance problems. To-morrow may be too late. Years of experience in the theatrical and motion picture field has enabled us to handle your problem with intelligence, dispatch and economy. May we prove to you how we can serve you better. Your phone's handy. fi EUBEN CXMUELS Inetu'^nf^ ^^^•^^ Art l^jtjf£^^ w Ineixfance Phone John -^^^/fe^.-^ag Samuek Bolsheviki Via Kinograms Kinograms will present shortly tK first and exclusive pictures of life i Russia under the Bolsheviki, wit pictures made in March in the strec' of Petrograd, with the nobles, me_ and women, cleaning the streets get food, the great political parad with their strange cubistic art ba ners, bombed buildings, etc. These pictures were made by or of the few Americans who was ali to stay through the winter in Petr' grad. RITCHEY posters are great, powerful and forceful posters — they are posters with an intensive advertis ^ ing value — and they sell seats! RITCHEY LITUO. CORP. 40$W.3IstSl.,N.Y. rhooe Cbebca 8388