Moving Picture World (May-Jun 1925)

June 27, 1925 MOVING PICTURE WORLD 9 93 Leading Independent Exchanges Buy Tiffany Traart Pictures RICARDO CORTEZ Appearing in Paramount pictures, of which his latest is “The Spaniard” MH. HOFFMAN, vice-president of the Tiffany Truart Productions • announces that franchises for all of his productions for 1925-26 including the Tiffany Big Twelve, based on the books and stories of famous authors, and the Truart Blue Ribbon, Novelty and Cinemelodrama series, have been bought by the leading independent exchanges in the United States. The franchise for California, Arizona and Nevada is held by Louis Hyman of the All Star Feature Distributing Corporation of San Francisco and Los Angeles who has closed for the Tiffany Products. There are other franchises pending for the Truart pictures. H. Weinberg of the Premier Picture Exchanges, Inc., of Des Moines, la., will dis tribute the Tiffany and Truart productions throughout Iowa and Nebraska. E. C. Roden of the Midwest Film Distributors, Inc., of Kansas City, holds the franchise for the states of Kansas and Western Missouri for Tiffany and Truart. The franchise for the State of Wisconsin for Tiffany is held by J. S. Grauman of the Celebrated Players Film Corporation of Milwaukee, Wis., who also has for his organization the Truart six Blue Ribbon series. The states of Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Tennessee, North and South Carolina are covered by the franchise held for Tiffany pictures by the Creole Enterprises of New Orleans with offices at Atlanta, Ga., Dallas, Texas and New Orleans, La. Schulberg Will Have Nine Pictures Ready by October 15 Harry Charnas of the Standard Film Service of Cleveland will handle the Tiffany and Truart pictures for Ohio, Kentucky, Michigan, Western Pennsylvania and West Virginia through their Cleveland, Cincinnati and Detroit exchanges and through the Federated Film Exchange in Pittsburgh. BY the middle of October exhibitors will be able to view on the screen nine ol the eighteen Preferred Pictures to be released during the new season by B. P. Schulberg Productions, announces J. G. Bachmann, general manager of distribution. Mr. Schulberg is now on the Coast personally supervising the work of three units that have already been working five weeks and will continue through the rest of the summer without a respite. The three pictures that are now well under way are F. Oakley Crawford’s story, “Parisian Love,” directed by Gasnier — “The Girl Who Wouldn’t Work,” by Gertie D. WentworthJames, directed by Marcel De Sano — and “With This Ring,” Fanny Heaslip Lea’s Saturday Evening Post novel, directed by Fred C. Windemere. The next three to be put in production as soon as the first trio are in the cutting room, will be “The Other Woman’s Story,” by Peggy Gaddis; “Lew Tyler’s Wives,” Wallace Irwin’s famous novel and “The Plastic Age,” Molly Malone Signs Contract Molly Malone has signed a long term contract with A1 Christie under which she will play as leading lady to Jimmie Adams in the new series of six two-reel Jimmie Adams comedies. Miss Malone played in two of the Christie comedies last season, “Easy Pickin’s,” with Neal Burns and “Love Goofy,” with Jimmie Adams, and was also Bobby Vernon’s leading lady in “Don’t Pinch,” which was recently released. Give Comedy Week’s Run So impressed was “Roxy” with the Educational-Tuxedo Comedy. “The Iron Mule,” that he booked this two reeler for a week’s at the Capitol, breaking what has almost become an iron clad rule in the big picture houses, for this picture is but the second two reel comedy to play his house in over two years. by Percy Marks, which was last year’s biggest fiction seller. The scripts for these are now being prepared. Next in order will be an unusually elaborate version of the celebrated stage classic, “Shenandoah,” which with its Civil War background, is known to every American theatre-goer. Coincident with the production of this property, will be the filming of John Goodrich’s story, “Eden’s Fruit” and another spectacular picture, “Horses and Women,” which is said to be an unusual story of the turf. With the exception of the initial three pictures, no definite assignment of directors has yet been made. L. Berman of the Independent Film Corporation of Philadelphia holds the Tiffany and Truart franchise, excepting the Truart Novelty series, for Maryland, Delaware, District of Columbia, Virginia, Eastern Pennsylvania and Southern New Jersey. The franchise for the New York and Northern New Jersey territory is held by the Renown Pictures Inc., with exchanges in New York City, Albany, Buffalo and Chicago, the latter taking in Illinois. Mr. Hoffman said that within a short time he will announce the franchise holders for his Tiffany and Truart products in Indianapolis, St. Louis, Boston, Canada, Minneapolis and Denver. Robert Frazer (left) in a scene in “The Keeper of the Bees,” a forthcoming F. B. C special.