Moving Picture World (Jul 1921)

1S6 Exhibitors Make Plans ( Continued from page 173) ship in the association and support in the work of the organization. A group of members pledged themselves to pay the expense of such a campaign, to begin immediately. or as soon as a suitable man is chosen. A discussion as to certain exhibition values being placed upon releases of Associated First National Pictures, Inc., which were deemed not in keeping with the box office value of the productions, was brought up and a resolution was offered which, while pledging implicit confidence in the circuit and offering continued support of the ideals and purposes for which the First National has always stood, asked that the matter of exhibition values on certain T>f the larger productions be gone into more carefully, so as to appeal to the theatre in the small towns who carried a franchise equally as strong as the larger cities, where individual appeal of some of the productions is very much different, owing to the “big-town” type of the production. This matter was referred to the local franchise holders for attention with the head executives of First National. The sessions of the convention were held at the Oceanic Hotel, which was convention headquarters. Surf bathing, fishing, boating and dancing occupied the attention of the delegates between business sessions, the delightful cool breezes of Wrightville Beach appealing very strongly to those who have journeyed from the heated interior of the state during one of the hottest seasons of the summer. Incorporations of Week Total Fourteen Companies Fourteen companies incorporated in the motion picture business in New York State during the past week, according to the records in the secretary of state’s office at Albany. The new companies, amount of capitalization and directors are as follow : Yonkers Strand Theatre Co., $50,000, M. J. MOVING PICTURE WORLD HENRY KOLKER Who has just finished the direction of “Disraeli,” a United Artists’ release and G. C. Walsh, W. B. J. Mitchell, Yonkers; Rudolph Ballet Company, $5,000, C. F. Strohmenger, George J. Eyssautier, A. A. McGovney, New York; Cardinal Pictures Corporation, $1,000, A A. Deutsch, Rudolph Trier, Nancy Katz, New York; Ercole Film Co., $100,000, Ercole Montagna, G. B. Michelot, Cesare Gravina, New York; Glengyle Corporation, $50,000, Winthrop A. Mandell, A. F. Koehler, New York; Henry Duchardt, Brooklyn. Jans Productions, $5,000, Sylvia Taubenhaus, Benjamin Abraham, Isaac Schmal, New York; Fred C. Quimby, Inc., $1,000, F. C. and Beatrice Quimby, H. L. Knappen, New York; Scientific Motion Pictures Corporation, $1,000, A. N. Mirzaoff, F. H Shaw, Karekin Aleon, New York; Goat Alley Producing Co., $5,000, J. J. Podell, Far Rockaway; Frederick Robinson, New York; I. C. Mondshain, Brooklyn; Motion Picture Equipment Corporation, $200,000, W. C. Smith, Philip Weisbrot, C. C. Smith, New York. Community Motion Picture Service, $500, David O. Decker, Ridgewood, N. J. ; David Levy, Brooklyn; Mary Fry, New York; B. and J. Amusement Company, $10,000, Benjamin, Rose and Julius Joelson, New York; Adventures of Tarzan Serial Sales Corporation, Nyack, $2,500, Adolph and Louis Weiss, Joseph July 9, 1921 M. Sheen, New York; Kremer Coaster Corporation, $200,000, George W. Kremer ; George W., Jr., and E. G. Kremer, New York. American Cinema Denies Actress Is Owed Salary The American Cinema Corporation has filed its answer to the suit brought against it in the New York Supreme Court by Louise Huff Stillman, motion picture actress, for damages for breach of contract. The answer admits that Miss Stillman performed services for the company at salary of $750 a week, and that she appeared in one picture completed by the defendants. The answer denies that she did not receive salary for two weeks following the making of the first picture, or that she did not receive salary for the weeks ending September 13 and September 20, 1919. The answer also admits that she notified the defendants on October 23, 1919, that she could not longer continue her services because of illness, but denies that they had any knowledge she had recovered from her illness. As five pictures remained to be produced under her contract, which the company denies liability for the severance of, it asks that her suit be dismissed. Judge Denies Demurrer in Smith-Robson Suit Supreme Court Justice Robert Wagner has denied the demurrer interposed to the complaint in the suit brought in the New York Supreme Court against Winchell Smith and others by Stuart Robson, and gives Smith and his co-defendants ten days in which to file their answer to Robson’s suit. The decision says the court is not interested in allegation that several causes of action are improperly united in Robson’s complaint, and adds he believes that there is only one involved controversy in the allegations of the complaint, and that as Robson’s interest is only a contingent one, he is entitled to ask a court of equity to protect it. Robson claims a contingent interest in the rlay, "The New Henrietta,” the product of Bronson Howard, willed to his mother, May Dougherty Stuart, and is suing Smith and others to recover $15,000 alleged to have been received by them for the exhibition of the play in motion picture form by Metro Pictures Corporation. Robson claims the production of the play in motion pictures would destroy its value for any other purpose. Robson also claims the defendants have no legal right to the posseesion of the play, or for its disposal for motion picture exhibition. “THEY SHALL PAY," THE TITLE OF PLAYGOERS PICTURE CORPORATION’S NEW PRODUCTION Seems to have hit the nail squarely on the head, as that is what all of us seem to be doing these days — and in especially bit chunks to the landlords