The Film Daily (1919)

1^— ^— Saturday, July 26, 1919 sM^ DAILV VoL IX No. 25 Saturday, July 26, 1919 Pric« 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; Joseph Dannenberg, Vice-President and Editor; Ben 11. Grimm, Associate 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. "No Quarter" (Continued from Page 1) have. I urge as strongly as the English language will command to give us your iinmediate co-operation and to ignore these malicious attacks. We ask no quarter froin the New York State Committee and we will give none. We shall watch closely the claim made to us that their attack is an underground means for certain friendly producing interests, buj'ing theaters, to break up the organization and get a toe hold in exhibitor's ranks. Maybe it is, and maybe it isn't, but time alo.ne will tell and the 'devil will out'." FANNIE HURST'S BIGGEST STORY — "A PETAL ON THE CURRENT"— Mary MacLaren has something here that will live for YEARS. Watch for it— August 4th. Guts and Flashes World pictures has engaged Sam Hardy as leading man for June Elvidge in "His Father's Wife." Eugene O'Brien has started work on Sealed Hearts his second Selznick production, Ralph Ince directing. Olga Petrova who is writing a series of stories for Photoplay, last week interviewed Elsie Ferguson. Walter Nicbuhr has signed John M. Stahl to direct five more productions with Mollie King. Saengcr of New Orleans has contracted for Prizma pictures for the coming season. Title of Louise Huff's first picture for American Cinema is "The Stormy Petrel," by George Middleton. Johnny Dooley is at work on his fourth comedy with William Nigh directing. Lillian Hall is in the support. "Pagan God" is the name of the second Superior Picture with H. B. Warner. Lt. Arthur Clayton is assisting in the production. Reported Patsy De Forest has been engaged to play in a series of comedies by Adolph Phillip. Fred Jackson is tlie author of "The Crooked Dagger," the serial to; be produced by Theodore Wharton for the Pathe program and in which Jack Norwortli plays the leading role. Jackson wrote "The Fatal Ring," in which Pearl White was starred. Road Shows for "Yankee Doodle" {Special to WID'S DAILY) Omaha, Neb.— The F. A. F. Enterprises, which control "Yankee Doo,dlc in Berlin" in this territory, plan to start a road show with the bathing girls about September 1. Iowa and Nebraska will be covered. This show will be followed by two more without the girls. Territory on Holmes Serial Sold A number of territories have already been sold for the new Helen Holmes serial being made by the S. L. K. Serial Corp.: Greater New York and New Jersey, Elk Photoplay, New York City; eastern Pennsylvania, southern New Jersey, Delaware, Washington, Maryland and Virginia, Arrow Film Ex., Philadelphia; New England, American Feature Film Ex., Boston; western Pennsylvania and West Virginia, Quality Film Ex., Pittsburgh; Ohio, Dave Warner, Cleveland; First National of North Carolina, R. D. Graver, Charlotte, entire block of southern states. "Topics" on Poll Circuit "Topics of the Day" has been booked for the Poli circuit of theaters in New England. In the Courts Suit has been filed in the Supreme Court by Henry H. Martin against Daniel F. Nolan and Charles Robinson to recover on a note for $20,000 made by F. F. Proctor's Yonkers Grand Theater and endorsed by the defendants. Supreme Court Justice Geigerich had signed a judgment in the Supreme Court for Edmond H. Lysle in his suit against the Color Projection Corp. to compel the defendant to return to him four patents covering a process for manufacturing motion pictures in natural colors. Under the agreement with the defendant Lysle was to get $416 royalties a month and whenever the defendant was in default for fifteen days in the payment of the royalty the process was to be reassigned to him. The court found that the defendant lost its rights to the use of the process on Dec. 4, last. The corporation contended that Lysle refused to co-operate in tiie development of the process. Two suits for damages for personal injuries have been filed in the Supreme Court against lessees of the Grand Opera House. Michael Stenson wants $10,000 because a special olTicer employed by the Harrison Amusement Co. assaulted him on July 7 last while removing him from a bo-x seat at a film exhibition and then had him arrested for disorderly conduct. The charge was dismissed by the Magistrate. Edith Marshall asks $25,000 from the Opera House Realty Co. because she slipped on the poorly lighted steps leading to the first balcony on Feb. 1, 1917, and broke her leg. Supreme Court Justice Greenbaum has dismissed a suit of Gladys Loftus of the Ziegfeld Follies against the Pioneer Film Co. and the Greenwich Lithographing Co. to recover damages because lithograph posters containing her picture was used without her permission in advertising the photoplay, "Shame." The decision, which is an important one to the trade, states that the posters purported to feature Zena Keefe, who posed for the phcitoplay, and were 2 feet by 9 feet in size. Concluding his opinion Justice Greenbaum states that the facts differ from those in the suit of Jack Binns against the Vitagraph Co., which has been the basis for many such suits for damages because of the unauthoriezd use of pictures, for the reason that the picture portrayed as that of Binns was not a likeness of him but was represented to be a picture of him. Accordingly the court said the plaintiff had failed to state a cause of action. Misleading Advertising Philadelphia. — Billboards here advertising the showing of "The End of the Road" bill it as "A Griffith production." Lieut. Edward H. Griffith and not D. W directed the feature. Jeffersonville, Ky. — JefTersonville Amusement Co. to build picture theater on Spring St. What's happening with Frank L. Hall? Incorporations .A.lbany, N. Y.— ihe Walter F. Wenger Dramatic Enterprises, New York City. Capital, $10,000. Organized to manufacture and deal generally in motion picture and photoplay films. The directors are: Walter F. Wenger, G. M. Wilkinson and L. McMahon, 206 W. 46th St., New York City. Albany, N. Y.— The Berico Producing Corp., New York City. Capital $10,000, will engage in the business of manufacirurmg, exhibiting and dealing generally in motion picture and photoplay films. George C H. Wiley, Charles Hallen and David P W. Russell, 61 W. 36th St., New York City. Albany, N. Y. — The Screen Entertainment Distributors, Inc., New York City. Capital, $100,000. Formed to manufacture, release and distribute motion picture and photoplay, films. John McAleer, George I. Matthews and John H. Jones, 80 West 91st St., New York City. El Paso, Texas. — J. C. 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