Motion Picture News (Mar-Jun 1920)

April 5, 1920 328i DENVER COMMENCING TODAY America Theatre — Feature — Judy of Rogues HarborMary Miles Minter. Comedy — His Royal Slyness — Lloyd Pathe. Instrumental — The Palms — Presented as a cornet solo. Next Week — The Forbidden Woman. Rivoli Theatre — Overture — Scotch Melodies. Current Events — Fox News. Comedy — The Great Nickel Robbery— Fox. Feature — His Wife's Money — Eugene O'Brien. Next Week— Footlights and Shadows. Rialto Theatres — Overture — Venetian Moon. Current Events — Pathe News, Pathe Review, Topics of the Day. Feature — Excuse My Dust — Wallace Reid. Next Week — Why Change Your Wife? Princess Theatre — Feature — My Lady's Garter — Maurice Tourneur. Next Week — Why Change Your Wife? j Richard Bartneimess .We Seymoui and CrOiflKton Hole 1" "Trie Idol Dancer" Prad™d ^ D. W. CRI^FITH MeMiw Lu,, Soloijt ftAt Ntw, C°mrtllt S^c Pn.M, Adams — Overture — " Red Mill" selections. Current Events — F rcc Press Weekly. Feature — " The Woman Game "— Elaine Hammerstein. MINNEAPOLIS Jinx 1.1 a dainty little tt/pc display for •' The Idol Dancer," the product of the New Garrick theatre, Minneapolis. In size it teas two columns bn four inchv.i rather smaller than the usual Xcw Garrick display DETROIT Display by the Palace theatre of Den Moines for "Should a Husband Forgive." In size it was four columns bu five inches Madison — Overture— "Monte Christo. Jr." Current Events— Pathe News. Feature— "The Family Honor." Next Week—" The Idol Dancer." Washington — Overture—" Maytime." Educational — " Magic Clay" — Prizma. Music Feature— Baby Corrinne, 7 year-old violinist. Current Events — Fox News. Comedy Cartoon — Mutt and Jeff in " The Price of a Good Sneeze." Vocal — "Peggy" — Washington Male Quartet. Feature — " Mollie and I " — Shirley Mason. Comedy — " His Royal Slyness " — Harold Lloyd. Next Week — " The Fortune Hunter." Broadway Strand — Feature 2 — "Huckleberry Finn " second week. Added attractions same as last week. Next Week — " Why Change Your Wife?" New Garrick — Pathe News. Vocal — "Italian Street Song" from Naughty Marietta by Victor Herbert. "The Birthday Sou" by Woodman. As sung by Madeline Lux, Soprano. Paramount Magazine No. 30. Comedy— Frank Moscr t ;n 1 1 Comic. Scenic Prelude — A South Sea Island Silhouette, designed by J. L. Johnston. Overture — "On the South Sea tsle" played by Symphonv Orchestra. Feature — D. W. Griffith's "Idol Dancer." •Organ selections by Julius K. Johnson. Next Week — Norma Talmadge in The Woman Gives. New Lyric — Pictorial Magazine and Current Events. Comedy — Parking in the Park, Gayety. News — Pictorial Review. Special Overture and Prologue cn. acted by six persons impersonating "Nobody", "Vice'", "Beauty", "Youth", "Modesty" and "Everywoman". Feature — Violet Heming in "Everywoman", held over for ten days showing. Starting Tuesday, March 30 — Wallace Reid in "Excuse My Dust". "W it and Wisdom" and Pathe colored scenic. Comedy— The Bone of Contention1 by Paul Terry. Vocal — Ruth Chase, soprano in repertoire. Overture and scenic prelude — Special medley by New Garrick concert orchestra. Feature -Mildred Harris Chaplin in "The Inferior Sex". Comedy — A Looney Honeymoon— Christie, Organ Solo by Helen Dufrcsnc Next Week Norma Talmadge in The Woman Gives sr. PAVL New Garrick — New Garrick Digest containing "Reclaiming the Everglades". mnaim mm shubw evening post" Wallace Iteid's " Exeunt given uood liittitu/ in th the Adam* theatre, Detroi ttmn b)i twelve inch ml March 28 ;/ Dust," In display of First National Officers Busy CONSIDERATION of the details of the distributing arrangement sought by Associated Producers, popularly known as the "Big Six," decision on the date and place for the 1920 annual convention of First National member? and exchange managers, a final survey of the percentage allotments determined by its Statistical Department and conferences in which several new producer offers were debated, were the important features of a special joint meet:ng of the Executive Committee and the Exhibitors' Defense Committee of Associated First National Pictures, Inc., held in New York on Monday and Tuesday of this week. According to the announcement, there has been no final action taken by the First National executives which in any way terminated the negotiations which have been in progress for weeks between the Associated Producers and the Circuit, or which the director members of the "Big Six" have had with other distributing organizations. Two meetings between members of the Executive Committee for First National, with its attor Convention Arranged at Meeting of Committees neys, A. L. and S. F. Jacobs, and Nathan Burkan and Nathan Vidavcf, chief counsel for the Associated Producers, resulted in an exchange of terms and conditions favored by the exhibitor members of the Circuit and sought by the directors, but without any concluding action resulting, it is said. Pending a definite settlement of releasing arrangements members of the "Big Six" arc continuing their work on present contracts, or planning in advance production work to be included in the output through whatever distributing affiliation finally is made. The annual convention of exhibitor members of First National, and the managers of the Circuit exchanges will be held at the Congress Hotel, Chicago, beginning on Monday, April 26, and continuing throughout the week. This convention will be the biggest of the annual affairs held by Circuit members since the organization of First National as an exhibitor cooperative body three years ago. As in 1919, it will be a joint meeting of the f ranchise owners and managers, but on this occasion, it is announced, many . of the important exhibitors throughout the country will attend, in addition to the present members of the organization. Coincident with the transaction of organization affairs by the members, the most important feature of the convention will be a complete explanation of all details of the new sub-franchising arrangement, which will become effective immediately after the convention. Present at the sessions devoted to the expansion method will be salesmen from every territory, the exchange managers, their respective exploitation men, and the total body of exhibitors, both present members and future members by franchise, together with the executives for the various producing companies holding contracts for the release of their pictures through First National. Exhibitor cooperation will be the keynote of convention it is said. Several new production propositions, fostered by important independent directors, stars and producers, which have been submitted to First National in the last four weeks, were discussed by the members of the Executive Committee, and will be made public at the convention, when they will he taken up for final action by the membership at large. Two Interpretations of Sennett Comedy The latest Mack Sennett five-reel Comedy, " Down on the Farm," admils of two interpretations, according to United Artists Corporation, who arc releasing the production. The story may be accepted as an authentic tale, or it may be enjoyed as travesty on the melodrama that fiourished years ago. It reveals the entire Sennett equipment at its best; chickens that never saw Broadway; cows not of the "prop" variety; ducks, geese, turkeys and nil the rest of the feathered creatures of Mr. Sennett's farm, became, so to say. a background tor the romance of Louise Fazcnda, the rustic con*fed beauty.