The Moving Picture Weekly (1920-1921)

The Moving Picture Weekly A MAGAZINE FOR MOTION PICTURE EXHIBITORS Published^eekly by the MOVING PICTURE WEEKLY PUB. CO. 1600 BROADWAY, NEW YORK CITY Paul Gulick, Editor. {Copyright, 1920, Universal Film Mfg. Co. All Rights R*a»iy§d.) Vol 10. JULY 3, 1920. No. 20 niversal Employees on Outing rVERY one has to bust out occasionally, and Universal finds it pays to do it regularly and under the proper auspices. So last Saturday was the annual Universal outing. By forty-seat busses, almost four hundred employees took the entire day off and journeyed up into the Bronx to a place called Westchester, where was the makin's of quite a decent party. To enumerate, there were eating halls, bowling alleys, dance hall, deserted saloon, soft drink bar, grass games, oval and a so-called ball field. If it had been any more like a diamond the Fort Lee ball team would have rolled up a much bigger victory over the 1600 Broadway ball chasers than 7 to 1. The Fort Lee bunch looked like class. They had spikes, gloves, suits, caps and a league ball, and the Broadway boys were licked before the first ball was thrown. John Schroeder, the aviator, tuned up for 1600, and before he came down to earth he decided that he had engine trouble. Paul Goldman of the Industrial Department then unreeled a few fade-outs, and v/as developing nicely when he cracked Catcher Bill Powers on his adding machine finger and lost the game. As soon as the busses reached their destination and the two crowds had looked each other over and said, "No, I don't know him, he must be from 1600 Broadway," and "Never saw her before, must be Fort Lee," Ring Master Etchingham put on his concertina hat and started the games. The prizes were exquisite and well worth the effort. The only one who complained was Olga Hadel, who only won a twenty-dollar silk umbrella and half a manicure set. She couldn't understand why she didn't get the other half, too, until Phil Cochrane told her that this was a manicure set for one hand. Olga won it in the one-legged hopping race. But the games were a big success, and so was the dancing, thanks to a fine orchsetra under the leadership of Bandmaster Bennett. Carl Laemmle seemed to enjoy himself hugely. He was accompanied by his son and daughter. He posed with the bunch for his picture, and was busy the whole afternoon shaking hands with employees he rarely sees. Among those present were Julius and Abe Stem, E. H. Goldstein, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Berman, Edward Moffat, Harry Levey, David Murphy, Clarence Jack, Joe Mayer, Jack Crowley, Horace Judge, Joe Monahan, John Davidson, Fred Perkins, Mr. and Mrs. Siegel and Mr. and Mrs. Jack Gartman. Mr. Gartman acted as general manager of the affair, and when they got to the office on Monday morning all hands united in giving Jack a hand engraved vote of thanks. EDGAR HAINES RETURNS Manager of Universal's Des Moines Elxchange Tell How They Like Universal ILflDDLE west audiences like "wild west" pictures and go to see them in preference to society nhotoplays, crook dramas or comedies, says Edgar B. Haines, manager of the Universal exchange in Des Moines, la., who recently visited New York to get his lungs full of Gotham air and his eyes full of — old acquaintances. He used to be a film salesman in the New York office. "They want action — hard riding and square shooting," said Haines. "Why, when I get a good western picture into the exchange, it doesn't stay on my shelf long enough to collect dust. It is that way with Universal's two-reel westerns, with Hoot Gibson and Art Acord and the other cow boy actors. When one of Harry Carey's five-reel westems comes along I hardly get a chance to look at it myself. "Iowa people are great picture fans. They are getting more so every day, if you can judge from the film selling business. We are doing business this summer that wasn't dreamed of last summer. Cancellations are few and far between, despite the hot weather. They used to say that Iowa had one inhabitant to every square mile. Now they say there's a picture house to evei-y 25 square miles and a movie fan every 25 feet." MON RANDAL DRAWING UNIVERSAL CITY STARS YfJON RANDALL, noted pen and ink artist, whose sketches of motion picture stars are familiar to every reader of trade and fan magazines, and whose posters adorn the walls of every city and village in America, is now confining his talents to reproduc ing the features and characteristics of Universal players at Universal City. Randall went to California a few weeks ago and now has his studio established at Universal City, where he can study the nature and habitat of Universal artists on their native heath. Mon Randall's work is as well known to filmdom as the acting of any of its famous stars. In fact, the Universal City portrait studio was enlarged at his suggestion and so constructed as to include a thoroughly equipped studio suitable to Mr. Randall's work. There is a quality about Randall's sketches that reproduces the very characteristics of the original and gives a far better likeness than the finest photograph. All future Universal advertising R-ill be illuminated by Randall's drawings, and some unusually brilliant work may be expected from this artist, now that he is at work at the studio and able to sketch the Universal stars from life.