The Moving picture world (May 1920-June 1920)

1424 THE MOVING PICTURE WORLD June 12, 1920 Snappy News Secured from Sundry Sources Screen Advertisers of World Meet in Indianapolis in June MOTION picture men from all parts of the United States are expected to be in Indianapolis during the second week in June to attend the convention of the Screen Advertisers' Association of the World, which will be held in connection with the general convention of the Associated Advertising Clubs of the World. Harry Levey, manager of the industrial department of the Universal Film Company, and who is president of the screen association, will be the principal speaker. The sessions will be held Monday and Tuesday afternoons, June 7 and 8, at the Claypool Hotel. Mr. Levey will speak on "A Dream Realized." This will be followed by a discussion and an address by Tim Thrift, advertising manager of the American Multigraph Sales Company and chairman of the motion picture committee of the Association of National Advertisers. His subject will be "What I Have Learned About the Motion Picture Medium." "The True Mission of the Motion Picture" is the subject of an address that will be delivered by John Leitch, author of "Man to Man." The Tuesday session of the convention will be opened with an address by President Levey on "Guaranteed Circulation with the Motion Picture Medium." An "experience meeting" will follow, in which advertising managers will relate their experiences with the motion picture as a medium of advertising. Industrial and educational pictures will be shown. I. A. T. S. E. Gives C. C. Shay, Retiring President, $10,000 THE annual meeting of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employes, whose membership is made up of motion picture machine operators in the majority, saw the retirement of Charles C. Shay, who has been president for ten years. The convention was held in Cleve land, and following the announcement by Mr. Shay that he did not seek re-election, the delegates voted him a purse of $10,000. The election resulted as follows : James Lemke, of Troy, N. Y., president; William Canavan, St. Louis ; Richard R. Green, Chicago ; Fred G. Dempsey, Boston ; W. P. Covert, Toronto, and H. C. HoUinger, Los Angeles, vice-presidents; F. G. Lemaster, general secretary and treasurer. One of the decisions of the meeting was a resolution approving the establishment of an Irish republic. Ralph Ruff ner Signs with the Jensen & Von Herberg Houses ANNOUNCEMENT has been made that Ralph Rufifner, who was called from New York recently on account of the death of Mrs. RufTner's brother. Will Darling, had accepted a position with the Jensen & Von Herberg chain of theatres, owners of the First National Exhibitors' Circuit franchise for the Seattle territory. Mr. Ruffner had been in the publicity department of the First National home office while in New York. His affiliations with the Jensen & Von Herberg interests will be in the position of director of exploitations for the Peoples, Star and Majestic Theatres of Portland. Mr. Ruffner had been connected with the Jensen & Von Herberg houses before his work in the First National home office. He has successfully managed theatres in Portland, Butte, Spokane and San Francisco. Saunders Is Made Controller Richard W. Saunders has been appointed controller of the Famous Players-Lasky Corporation. As controller he will have full charge of all the accounting and auditing, including the control of purchases and expenditures, in all departments of the Famous Players and its subsidiary companies. Mr. Saunders resigned as cashier of the National Bank of Commerce to accept this position with Famous Players-Lasky Corporation. Barthelmess Becomes a Star; Others to Head Own Companies ANOTHER young Griffith player who soon will be a star in his own right is Richard Barthelmess, whom everybody enjoyed immensely in "Broken Blossoms" and who has been coming fast as a character actor through hi^ work in "Scarlet Days," "The Idol Dancer" and other Griffith pictures. Mr. Barthelmess is not leaving David W. Griffith. His pictures will be made at the Griffith studio in Mamaroneck and are expected to begin immediately following the completion of "Way Down East," the Griffith feature in which Mr. Barthelmess will be seen as David Bartlett. Other Griffith players who soon are to head their own companies are Robert Harron and Lillian Gish. Practically all the pictures will be made at the Griffith studio, and the one and only "D. W." will be the best friend any of these players could have. Require Duplicate of Express Receipts On and after July 1 the American Railway will keep a duplicate copy of every receipt it issues when receiving business from shippers. Shippers accustomed to prepare their own receipts, or who have their own forms, have been asked to supply duplicates of such receipts to the express driver or receiving clerk who signs them. The regular receipt forms of the express carrier will be revised to permit their use in duplicate form. In cases where prepaid receipts are now being issued in duplicate, the extra copy being used as a record of charges paid, a third copy will be required under the new system, and in such instances prepaid receipts will be issued in triplicate. Prominent Exhibitors Unite to Build Big Hollywood House A PICTURE palace with a seating capacity of 2.500 will be erected on Hollywood Boulevard at Ivar street as a result of a local film merger. Three prominent Hollywood exhibitors this week consolidated their interests with Gore brothers and Sol Lesser to immediately form a half million dollar corporation that will control the new theatre as well as the three smaller Hollywood playhouses now in operation. The theatre owners who joined Gore and Lesser in the big enterprise are J. L. Swope, owner of the Hollywood Theatre; John Young, of the Apollo Theatre, and Frank Grant, of the Windsor Theatre. William S. Hart for Sheriff The popularity of William S. Hart among film patrons was given evidence last week when the democrats of Hood River County, Oregon, nominated him for sheriff. Five Democrats wrote in the name of the Paramount star on their ballots and late returns indicate that Hart had received the nomination, as no other Democrat was voted on. Mr. Hart said: "I will gladly accept the namination of sheriff of Hood River County, Oregon, if my constituents in that county will allow me to reside in Los Angeles and fulfill my duties up there by periodical visits. I am deeply* appreciative of the great honor that has been thrust upon me, but my locations would for the most part be in the Southwest instead of the Northwest. Hence my deputies would have to do most of the work." piiiiiiiiiHiiiii;iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiin^ ^ I Colored Searchlights on Grauman 's New Theatre j I to Flash Starting of Shows; Can be Seen for Miles j 1 ^ ID GRAUMAN, proprietor of two high -tlass motion picture theatres in | I ^ Los Angeles, and a third. The Metropolitan, now in course of construction, | i is about ready to begin construction work on his new theatre in Hollywood 1 1 to cost in the neighborhood of $650,000 and to have a seating capacity of approxi i I imately 2,200. | I The building itself, which will have a frontage of 105 feet, will have a sug | I gestion of the oriental type of architecture, and will be set in a picturesque, g I garden-like enclosure, with electric fountains and statuary as ornamental fea | 1 tures. . • • I 1 Said Mr. Grauman, in speaking of his plans for the new theatre : The mterior j I will be elaborately decorated. In a sense the general plan of the building | I .will assume the characteristics we have projected for the new Metropolitan. | I One of the most striking arrangements will be that in the tower of the theatre. j I We will import French searchlights sending out shafts of different colors. They g 1 will be used to announce the start of the performance. | I "For instance, a green light will indicate that the next entertainment will be | I gin in, say, fifteen minutes, and then a red light will make apparent the actual g I starting of the show. I am informed that these colored searchlights will carry | 1 a distance of thirty-five miles. » • ., ■ i "The theatre will have a thirty-five piece orchestra in all probability. A similar | I program to that at the Million-dollar Theatre will be given— prologue, special | i stage acts, short films and orchestral numbers. I also intend to have popular g 1 Sunday morning concerts. The bill will be changed twice weekly, and we will | 1 specialize in pre-release pictures." | fuiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiHiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiii^