Moving Picture World (May 1919)

6+8 THE MOVING PICTURE WORLD May 3, 1919 Rambles Round Filmtown With WALTER K. HILL ujj|tA^iiyj!iyjiiyii^iiutiiy}iiyj|iy^iMiiyii^iMiMityjiMig^ T The Rambler. come to our lately returned Picture World, Salute and Hail to A Brace of Regulars. HERE was an unusually interesting and intelligent assemblage of bright young men segregated on one of the floors of Keen's Chop House (advt.) on Saturday afternoon preceding Easter to welcity Ben Grimm, who to the staff of Moving and Charles R. Condon, who was visiting our city and his sister Mabel at the time. The occasion gave the two lads proof that although they were long absent, answering the call of their country, that the "tradepaper gang" and an elect number of the P. A. fraternity had not forgotten them. Also the event furnished opportunity for many shafts of wit and wisdom to pass over and through the heads of the assembled congestion of brains. Pete Smith, general press representative of Famous Players-Lasky (advt.) made the best speech of the hour. Said Pete: "What will you have?" and in answer the bunch ran up a bill for pretty close to $8, which is hereby certified against a possible bulge in Pete's "swindle sheet." That a good time was had by all we vouch. Better still, ask: Laurence Reid, Jerome Beatty, Arthur Northam, C. S. Sewell, Alfred J. Chalmers, Peter Milne, Ben H. Grimm, James L. Hoff, R. C. McElravey, Charles E. Hastings, Louis R. Reid, Lynde Denig, Epes Winthrop Sargeant, George Blaisdell, Joseph L. Reddy, Arthur M. Brilant, Pete Smith, Fritz Tidden, Charles R. Condon, U. S. A., General Hospital No. 10, Boston ; William J. Reilly, James Beecroft, Paul C. Hinz, Joseph L. Kelley or me. — V — Billboard Campaig-n for — is a trade paper headline that might be kept standing, but for the change of the attraction's name each week. Eddie Rosenbaum, Jr., missing from these locations for some time, has been discovered in Los Angeles as manager for Tom Mix. We have an illustration of Mr. Rosenbaum, Jr., at the engravers. It will be well worth missing. There Are Movie "Fans" and There Are Walking Ditto. By way of getting a higher efficiency and better service, Hugo Iliesenfeld instructed that the night watchman of the RivoU be equipped with a recording pedometer to keep track of his travels in the dark hours. It was to show whether or not that watchman kept moving. That ingenious person, however, had other Ideas. Pie attached the pedometer to an electric fan motor and the next morning the record clerk found that the watchman had done 15,000 miles the night before. — -Terry Ramsaye. Rambles' Own "Stunt" Suggestion. Another Stage Scandal. On the Tucker stage at Brunton studio, some one just back from New York was telling Betty Compson all about the plays on Broadway. Afterward, Betty heard an extra man passing it along. "There's one of them war plays that I shoulda thought woulda got the gate way back last November when the armiss-tiss was signed, and they stopped drafting. And here the public kept it going till a few weeks ago. You know the one I mean — John Barrymore in 'Exemption.' " Thomas Shepherd. — V — "For Better, for Worse" is a forthcoming movie. We trust it will be for better. — V — Comparative Expressions. Harry Raver has Leah Baird and William Fox has Theda Bara. Then there's Mack Bennett's Bathing Girls. — V Screen Queens and Lavish Gifts. The Movie News, printed in the interest of a Marion, 111., cinema palace, prints this reference to the generosity of screen queens: "After completing a picture, many stars give the dresses worn in the play to the 'extra girls.' If Theda Bara did that with her 'Cleopatra' dresses some 'extra girl' at Fox's is going to accumulate either an awful cold or a bad case of sunburn." — v — "The Cry of the Weak"— Pathe. If your patrons like the strong melodrama, I doubt whether you could satisfy them any better with another picture than you could with "The End of the Game." — P. S. H., in Empy News. — V — Concerning Profit and Loss. When Universal and Finkelstein & Ruben cast up accounts as the result of a change J. L. Johnston made this week in his location, it will be found that the Minneapolis firm will be heavy on the profit side. For five months Johnston has been turning out crisp, film-selling publicity from Universal's home office, where, under Tarkington Baker, he has scored an enviable record. His stuff counts in effectiveness without useless waste of space and Finkelstein & Ruben are entitled to congratulations for the move they have made in taking Johnston back to his own home town to do their advertising and publicity. For some time the new F. & R. publicist edited Amusements in Minneapolis and acted as Twin City correspondent for Moving Picture World. With work to do in both Minneapolis and St. Paul, Johnston has a chance to develop his ideas and unquestioned ability. Hotel Astor Installs Rival . to Alexandria's Magic Rug. WC. PATERSON, manager of the Criterion, Atlanta, ran into his • old pal Joe Lee on the edge of the rug and Josephus immediately screened a sales talk in behalf of Anita Stewart's "Midnight Romance." Without giving the Southern showman a chance to break the continuity, Joseph turned every angle in his argument until half an hour had fled. "But, Joe," finally broke in Patterson, "I've booked the picture for a week in my house." "Well, I must say," spouted Josephus, "that you've got a nerve, under the circumstances, to be taking up this much of my time." * * * Jim Beecroft, on behalf of the Exhibitors Herald, presented James D. Williams with a beautiful bouquet of long-stem roses at the First National banquet. In ten minutes Colonel Levy, of Louisville, had given them "for second run," as he explained it, to the girl who was song-plugging for the occasion. Whereupon James was knocked speechless — and you know what that means to Jim! Nameless shall be the hero of this adventure of an exchange manager — biit here's what actually happened. His wife joined him in the trip to New Y'ork for one of the conventions that lately kept our town alive with film men. While alone in the stateroom occupied en route, wifey killed time by inspecting the contents of her husband's grip. She discovered, in a quiet corner of the bag a sheet of paper bearing a list of telephone numbers with names, strange to her, set opposite. On arriving in our city, wifey called every number and asked the woman who, in each instance, answered the phone to join Mr. Soandso at dinner. Then she suggested to hubby that they go to the Knickerbocker for dinner that night — and walked into the party of six "skirts" who had assembled to greet him! — v — Over a Demi Tasse at the Club. I look with regret to the dryNess, due on the first of July; But Alex. J. Herbert Gives orders for sherbert, And never comes through with the rye. — Silas Frank Seadler. Mistake Brings Fall to Peggy Hyland. — Publicity Headline. "Even as you and I." Some screen queens shine socially while others are social "shines." Personal: D. B. S.— You can do better than that. We have reason to believe that Harry Reichenbach is "at it again." Tliose postal cards are said to herald "When Bear-Cat Went Dry." For man who never drinks a drop, Harry knows a lot about prohibition. — V — "President Wilson to See (deleted) Films on Way Home" is a publicity line so common that nobody pays any attention to it. He would seem to be coming from the Peace League only to dash into a thousand leagues of picture film.