The film daily year book of motion pictures (1925)

June 28 Fred Niblo assumes charge or "Hen Hur." First Nationa] turns down £7, 000, COO offer to build houses in key centers of England. Wichita, Kan. starts free shows in parks. Metro-Goldwyn to develop special exploitation for small town exhibitor. English exhibitors not in accord on tax reduction. C. E. A. convention stars. June 30 London reports Henry Ford financier of huge international combination. Coast power shortage to continue until Fall. Producers holding up schedules. Report from Coast that Faribanks plans chain of international theaters for United Artists. New light diffuser removes eye strain, eliminates Klieg ailment and cuts lighting costs, says former Ince cameramen, inventors. Harry Charnas abandons cnarge of Standard Film. Cleveland, to handle Warner distribution. July 1 New 50 cent tax law effective at midnight. Japanese boycott subsides, Famous reopens Tokio office. Wm. Vogel sees film shortage for England. Expects rentals to jump in Winter. George Eastman's stock gift turned over to employees Now totals $21,000,000. Tom Terriss returns, "The Bondalero" completed. Hedley M. Smith blames bad conditions in England on unemployment slump. July 2 Wm. Brandt won't run for New York M P. T. O. presidency at Tuesday Buffalo meeting. No'thwest exhibitors keep tax recoup part of losses. Equipment convention in Cleveland July 1618 Effort to be made for better business ethics. Exhibitor angles to be sought by Warners. Executives to visit key cities securing data. British industry united in plan to raise money for relief of sick. Garden party to be held July 19. July 3 D. W. Griffith making eighth and final picture under United Artists agreement. Arthur Smalhvood's Producers Distributing Guild to function by Fall. Inventor of the Eane title process, upheld in action against Craftsmen on infringement claim Jake Wells says pictures should not play Richmond, Va., for full week Midwest does not feel combines as much as the South and East, witnesses at Government hearing against Famous, testify at Oklahoma City session. New projector developed on Coast. Said to have a flexible refractor that increases illumination. July 5 Three hundred expected at N. Y. M. P. T. O. Buffalo convention. H. C. Durant, former Paramount production executive, interested in Connecticut producing unit. F. B. O., Ltd., deal with Producers Dist. Corp., set. for English distribution of 36 pictures. "Film Renter," London, suggests world conference to discuss international film standard. July 7 Local independents rolling up volume business because national distributors hold out for stiff prices. Exhibitor convention opens at Buffalo. Certified and Independent Films, Boston, combine, as Independent Films, Inc. July 8 Brandt attacks Steffes and O'Toole in annual address before State exhibitors. Japan plans 100% ad valorem tax on "films." No designation of what is meant. Warners buy "The Hair of Connemara," written by 20 authors. T. Gordon Edwards to make "The Jest." F. I. L. M. arbitration board decides for George Cohen, Poughkeepsie, against Famous for $17,000, in contract argument. July 9 M. P. T. O. to break up into three T. O. C. C. zones . In arms over "Sea Hawk'' contracts. Northwest exhibitors urged not to sign "Sea Hawk" contracts. Charles Brabin sues Metro-Goldwyn for $583,0CO for alleged contract breach. Edmund Goulding to direct for large producing unit. Forty from F. B. O. for new season. "Lefty" Klynn and Reed Howes signed. July 10 N. Y. M. P. T. (). elect M. J. Walsh, president, and Samuel Berman, secretary. Mergers, block booking and titles flayed. Henry Ford denies report crediting him as financier of large international combination. Cosmopolitan may make '•Zander, the Great" and "Never the Twain Shall Meet' 'in the West. Hays office considering changes in uniform contract. Associated Exhibitors will release 28 for 19241925 July 11 Griffith to make three pictures for Famous Players. Northwest exhibitor unit declares war on block booking system. Lee Ochs signs Vincent Lopez as musical director of the new Piccadilly theater. Will Hays leaves for the Coast. July 12 Block booking fight on in New York, Northwest and Michigan. Issue assuming aspects of national importance. D. W. Griffith to sell studio at Mamaroneck. Iowa favors Allied plan of exhibitor organization. July Many parks in New York city giving free picture shows. M. P. Equipment Dealers will divide countr> into four zones . "The Lost World" in production. To be a novelty on First National's fall list. Exporters consider Japanese boycott talk a dead issue. Worried over Brazil. Claude Friese-Greene will make short reels in color for American company. Samuel Goldwyn regains right to use name on own productions. Pathe shoots pictures of "White Indians" in Darien jungles July 15 Four hundred theaters in St. Louis territory closed. Inactivity at mines and bad business the reasons. S. R. Kent on Coast conferring with C. B. De Mille over changes in "Famous Forty." J. R. Grainger handling East and E. M. Saunders the West for Metro-Goldwyn. First National executive committee approving plans for change in production headquarters. July 16 Adolph Zukor confirms the Griffith contract, exclusively announced first in THE FILM DAILY. Important construction company may build big studio in East. Loew circuit buys 47 pictures for early fall showing. Equipment dealers may meet with M. P. T. O. in Milwaukee in 1925. N. Y. World survey indicates public is not benefiting from tax reduction. Small exhibitors keening the difference. Whitman Bennett studio, Yonkers. sold to Catholic college. July 17 Fox to release 31 speci'als and 21 star subjects for fall. Comedy planned for everv week. Japanese luxury tax will not include motion pictures, Hays office discovers. July 18 Pathe Exchange declares special ten per cent dividend. Harold Lloyd has two more to make for Pathe July 19 Exhibitors openly declaring they will keep war tax expected to have serious reaction when fall legislative sessions open. Thirty-nine states seek more revenue. 560