Moving Picture World (Oct-Nov 1919)

Bovemti'4'" 22,.lq1c' 421 THE moving picture world IwtoddypMg&n.TipIgff U/her/? DORIS KENYON IE "THE BANDBOX," HODKIHSON RELEASE ROWLAND & CLARK HAVE PRETENTIOUS BOOK One of the moat pretentious announcements issued: by a theatre or chain of theatres has been gotten out by the Rowland & Clark Theatres, Pittsburgh. It is a sixteen page book, 8 by 11 inches to the page, printed in two colors on enameled stock. The book has an attractive hand-lettered title page and contains portraits and biographies of stars who appear at the various R. & C. theatres, also group pictures of the theatres end managers, in addition to the greeting and promulgation of the policy of the R. & C. theatres. The book was compiled by publicity Manager S&muel Sivitz. ______________ FIRST FAMOUS DIRECTORS PICTURE COMPLETED Dallas M. Fitzgerald, who is directing the first production for Hallmark Pictures Cdrporation series of twenty six Famous Directors' Pictures from an original story by Leon D. Britton with Anna Lehr starred, supported by Marie Shotwell, Edmund Breese, Wallace Ray, George Cooper, Glenn Kunkel, Joseph Granby, Edward Elkas and Jalhes Cullen, announces that .the aotual production work on this picture will be completed this week. The title of the first F.itzgerald picture has not been given. NOBLE TO DIRECT OLIVE THOMAS Myron Selznick has decided that John W. Noble, the latest acquisition to the Selznick megaphone foroes, will direct Olive Thomas' fifth Selznick production, now proceeding under its working title, "Out of the Night." Josephine Miller Is the author of the magazine story on which the picture is based. Miss Thomas will appear in this feature following "The Girl from Out There," a Ralph Incq presentation. WHEN they saw the prospects of oodles of dimes and jitneys never getting into their itching palm, SOUQ of the ushers at the Capitol Theatre went on a strike before the new house had been in commission a week. To be sure all of the ushers had been told by the management that the Capitol was a strictly no -tip house when they signed up to snatch coupons, pass programs and point in the general direction of an empty seat. But they were told this before the house was opened and before the crowds began to surge up the wide staixwtfays and stream down the aisles. Tc the itching palm laddies it looked an easy matter to snare a tip when offered or to force one when patrons acted tip shy. The superintendent of the house couldn't b^ everywhere — and the itchy palms could! Matters ran along fine for several days. At last the papers had run out of publicity on the new house. Tfhe Capitol has ceased to be a half-oolumn wonder in the eyes of oity editors. Ben Atwell was getting right up against the age-old proposition of stealing Bpaoe while "the old man" napped at the city desk. Stories about the directorate; paragraphs about the number of bricks used in the fire-proof chimney ; raise of the management and its enterprise having een used to a greater or less extent by papers trade and papers daily — the lapse of time indicated that Ben Atwell might be expected to make a move. The no-tip olause in the ushers lease on the Capitol's patrons having been previously "planted" in programs and stories, Benjamin bethought himself —and called a mimeographed strike among the itchy palnm The thing broke as far as four inches into the Times. Alison Smith gave her whole movie department in the Globe to the time-and-a-half-for-no-time-at-all move the eczema-fisted seat slammers at the Capitol had pulled on the oity folk who had come within reaoh. and had, up to the fatal hour, gohe unkicked. The strike was a whale of a success — even as much of a whale as the Capitol is among theatres. Twelve of the gyppers threw off their uniforms and [began working on the contract keepers among the total staff of thirty-two guides. They didn't wait to pioket on the outside of the building— the strikers put the stuff on right then and there. The crowd became more interested in the strike than they were in why Doug Fairbanks couldn't play the Capitol for life. And when it had gone far enough to make good for the story Izzy Innbad, the strike leader, was led off to a police station and Ben Atwell rushed ti& yarn down to the papers. The Capitol is still running. And the way to get % good seat is very much like the method said to be employed in othex theatres where there is no no-tip olause in an utterly keepless oontract with ushers E. H. HIBBEN IN DENVER FOR F02 E.H. Hibben succeeds H. C. McDonald as managing director of the William Fox Strand and Plaza theatres in Denver. Mr. McDonald returns to the east to take up other duties with the William Fox organization*. EUGENE O'BRIEN PLAYS ON FAIR HEART STRINGS IN HIS. NEWEST SELZNICK. "THE BROKEN MELODY" I I