Variety (October 1919)

ENORMOUS BIDDING SHOOTS SCREEN RlGHBT0nJlYSASUAS$2W ilirk Keuie WaiiU This Much for Her Services and "Ro- ^ffiumce^lOO^OOO Is Asked for Picturing of "BM ol . Paradise''and'^ay Down East^—Smith and Gold- en Are Asking $80,000 for 'Turn to the Rightf^ ^ and Harris WanU $60,000 for **East U " " Wes^'-^Only $75,000 So Far Offered for the Tully Drania. .1 '.- r^.T- urn ^1 mm fh* siteM 9t pl«v» 'ftr. pMarintfoa MdieC ft lilijlMF.slsiral iriUilii tts IMult tbiree moatlMi Uin|^ any time atam Uie ine«ptloa-a( Ow ilB industry. . AtUm of UM:4|ti» JpDtKUons on tightv .«(vain for Uw MBMB allows that Soito SeiiMb who anlffoi !■ tUs eomitiy tm» ■■wtAa aaob IB aaidntr t2M.M0 for tke irlgbti 1i» 'VaniaBMb'* Indndliw lur omt- IMB and those of her aoabaadi Basil Si^ey, In the making of the aeretn pro- dactlon. WiUiatai A. Brady has set a price of tlOO.OOO each on "Way Down ^East" and "The Man Who Came Back." "a. H. Woods Is holding "Friendly Ene- ttfei^ at $60,000 and "Under Orders" at |3«,000. For "Omar, the Tent Maker," !iUchard Walton Tully Is asking $2S,O0O. ,For the picture rights to tho 'Slid of Paradise," for exampl«b «MMM la ^aikad. with «16,000. s^enid. .;. > apilUk ft Golden aM.aifans |8MM ter nstett^ Uia and IVte, Burilab gfe^^ftaai^ipt ilMSS ai Um flgna far [r.-'VUt- and 'Wkimer.'^ ptoduced by 'llelro three months ago, brought |40.(M >'«|a "Lombardl, Ltd." $20,000, -At the present time legitimate vto^_: dncers are turning a deaf iear to pro- posals for the picture rights of eren near successes for lesA than |25,OO0. . The rising prices of picture rights la to a gr^t measure brought aboiit 'ttnoogh the linking up of the theatrical ■jHdaeers with various film ednipaaies . AbS playiag tbelr plecea on a pereentage Uuim la tbe lUiBa.. Shia liaa Tirtnally «liiKm4 the wvAbA «( all nalbMa aia- "ilia MBova X^layera paid |1T,«M for .vdM rights to "Tha Copperhead," now In ^eciarae of' plettirisathML' Smith and .'Golden are reported to be asking |100,> OOO for "Llgbtnin"' and David Belaaco la said to have set a prloo nC'fSGMM tot "The Music Master." A question that seems to be coming up at this time is the one that the authors are raising as to whether or noL the producer who takes a play's rights ahould share on the picture rights. The managers state that It la .their making productions of tha ttun <hat enhances the value to the aoeea and that the vaOuo inenaaaa w ru io iidln g ly to the Jkastta «( UN nna. dagr tl»t totbapietnra ,oot.<a ikift 'Wh U aha r a t Interests that noir eon- trtff flw Now Tkeatre, the Garden and .projected Century, purchased outright . the Parkway, secured control of the Mc- Eenry and the Wizard Theatres and bought out the promoters' interests in the playhouse to be consuiicted at Park avenue and Lexington str.iet. The deal, which involves a million dollars. Is the . largest of its kind ever consummated in this city, giving one corporation control of all the largest picture houses in Bal- ttanoro. .. C EL Wtaitehurst, president of the en- the deal Monday, and la e^^pi^ol U ie jioDaea irt oiic^ under aerfons eonaideratlni, and the re-; apeetlye Intereata had been. wvbldnB In an effort to reacli < While work-has aa yet 'starteS'-ea'' the Century it Is understood that the purchase of the Parkway and other theatres will not interfere with the con- stroction of ttUs amuaemeat bouse. :<:43tKtn3t: Fritz Kreisler in his ftnst appeuance in New York in several years at Car- negie Hall, Sunday afternoon, played to $6,500 and before a capacity crowd that filled every-juart of. the bouse including appearittoe 'waa ' the first ainee 'a dedazatton.. of war oa Ger- 'Hia yedcptlan ^^ttM^^~liM.:aloat..eordlal Mtaamd la tMa^cUy^ nia dady press, cononentlng the nest day. on bla ptaylng, eulociaed. bla vtetooalty with The attachment of the.title of "The Kew American Beauty" to Katherlne MacDonald by the First National may bring the quitter of ownership or, pro- fessional right to tt Intw tto OMTlB It necessary. - The title waa firat employed some years ago by Relne Davies when ap- pearing on the William Morris cicpuit. Miss Davies has used it continuously since that time when appearing in vaudeville and Is reported to have In- structed her attorney to protest against the emploiriiient of It for tbentrkal pur- br aay one eiae. " r- '>RopuciNQ ai.- ai/BjrcTO. The scarcity^ of ultable ate- rial is driving a iiimbwr of proaucing crfanlzations to remake some of their earlier releases. Tlie Vita_ ... re- c>.....y .. I'he V...geanc- oi D^c- and" wliK. originally r^Iea^Lu as a tliree-reeler some ycuurs ago and ; - made it as a five-reel feature with Alice Joyce as ~the star. The exhibitor reporta on the prodaetloa are. audi aa to iadlcate that the pletaN la ana oC tl-> bort tbat baa been limMd .out br tbo'eeaipa- la «he hut avo yisana "EYES OF YOUTH" SHOWN. There was a special showing of the Clara Kimball Toung feature, "The Eyes of Touth." in the ball room of the Astor yesterday afternoon. The print shown was in eight reels; this will be cut to beCoro the ^ietare la Mary Miles Minter's First Realart. Realart announces for imminent re- lease Mary Miles Ulnter in "Anne of Green Gables." No date has yet been aet, but the picture is completed. It wm follow dosely on the heels of the laat wreek aa tlie firat Mm. 0BIECT TO AMQBIKRnr. There is an undercurrefiit of faction among some of the stoGkboMbmi of the World Film Corporation agabut the arrangement entered into by wUdk Lewis J. Selznick, In association with Brltton N. Busch, takes over the ex- changes of the World and bandies the concern's distribution under the title of the Republic Distribution Corporation. It waa stated early this week by one of the World atockholders papers were bdas.dnnni to twlng an aethtt for an talHidMk ^ireatoili the ea«n«ijr wit at Cho agreMBanL B- jto uadeiataod "the United, Theatre PteUiiea CwprrViade aa offer of $1.00.- SM.nore fpr tha aane deal that Bels- nklk entered Inb aM tttitt. a ateckbdd^ eraf poinnrfttea 'lB,;iiTMi>ipitlng qta peg- aoHM erdM tnM.iiilHi 4t. view to.de- 6imlBlng whettai; ittar all, the Sda- Bide..arrangeiii«rt imn- ' C. K. Y. TO IffiTIBE. darn Kimball Toung is to retire from the pietare field after ahe eooipleCea her! nest ten pteturea.' thta wUTiiMaiR tfbt' tiro plctorea ha:tfie wiUaiBg six months e( Iwr c<mfaaet with ''Uw'Equity Pic- tores Compsiny. The announcement of her retirement came in conjunction with a plan that she was going to select her own suc- cessor on the screen and that a girl picked hy her will have the advantage of two and a halt jrearaf tuition undto her direction. Harry Reichenbach swears that it is not a publicity plant on his part and that the idea -bad Its inception with Miss . Young, Who wants to retire and then after a tour oC the world, appear ' la the.^jqpiofeon dnuna bava, piay.bfmrr ^ ne«e^r Oie IdMC of iMdcliig^ Aaaor to' tite' aeieM iter ^waa upon 1>y the eirculatlOn; dcgMrttOitt: ^^ various hinterland papers trBo havelvean' wiring and asking for the excKtsive rights in their own territory to pick a girl to enter the elimination conetst' for the honor of being a screen star. svmm GO. SOTS w. o. una, ■ -]:«iiaMi..oec.i>s; 1 The I%iWpo ilbia hM pnriSh^^ entire official war oftice fibna. Moore's A Furniture House Des Moines, Oct. 29. Moore's O. H., oldest theatre In Dea Moines, built in 1874, and in ita day the finest in Iowa, is being remodeled into a lAolesale furniture house. The theatre waa aold lor tha.lCoore eatata hi Jidy, io a-.tealtare m vaadenrHie It tttf Ou (1 0t S^Mt* ' Fmc Taidas Tabor-Grand, Denver Denver, Oct 29. A representative of William Fox Is daily expected herei to close for the ■Tabor-Grand, now playing Western Vaudeville. Managers' Association, Chl- eago, 'vaudeville. : If aeiMredi -thO;TaborrGnuia will give I iB Denver. The Tabor > qalte a ann to; nrhealra For Naiif BadCanI (Maaa»)a The IL B. Gordon Interoata hava ] chased a site for a new theabe and ot« flee building In New Bedford, Mass. The house will seat about 2,000 and will play pictures and vaudeville. Construction \s'ill start Nov, IS. The Gordon's already operate the Ob'mpia with popular vaudeville in New Bed- Arthur Leslie With Fox. Arthur Leslie baa been engaged aa speeiRl wpreaaikattvo tor tha Ita FUm Vewa. duties win eblefly eiMidl tta. et prootfhent fl!abJ$ola Cor flM Vh( tM^eafc lUMUSH MONEY IN FILMdL v^' London, Oct. 18. ^.'^ la being poured, byVi^J Snglidi famiUeat hiio^w ieroeik and ataga yenttires, and so nua^ ";: - M ;tto haattbr-aHnteed nunltton fnw.-> - —^ tb«ag.:%^ pany have boom baa been . ^ racy plunged on the Iflaalaaippl Babblah';' Socialism, radical .reform, tabor dom-: inatlon, the seed of great lands for agricultural purposes, and the cam- paign against the estate owning dukes, begun years ago by Premier David Lloyd-George, ki^e all making land a poor investment. It may be swept any moment out of the jjower of the lords. They are selling as much as they can^- .to' tenants and others, end puttBa-liia'4^ capital Into various ventures. Much of It Is gotaig Into amusements. .Adolpb Zukor'a aobemea have fired the Iniagtnatioii, .taiaiit a^MlPi oo^ be! : tii.flrt'iUHliiM' CoBipany which la>9at jDut c«pftallaed.(at; IMM-M^ <>r^ .tta already taidaaporatad .'BMIah .Pro-i^ ThaoeteaalBto ceiitRil. la in IheJiaBda of a board of dbreetora hiaMedl^lqc Sir; Walter. De ^Veece uid; l|id£hidiQ|( Charles Henry Higham. member of Parliament, Balowina Draper, member of . Parliament, Gerald Du Maurier, Charles Hunter, A. E. Matthews and Waiter Hutchinson. The Literary Conmilttee, which will 8uper\'ise the artistic productions. ^ In- cludes Sir Arthur., Wing, ^inero. Go' R Sims.. It vCL::!Qii;Mja;.ai4V:l^ Knoblauch. . The company has purchased land at Hampton Court and will put up the big- gest studios in Great JBritata. Also it Jwiight. land, at-.^k^^ '|lfaV#ii^aS jo<B^i< .to tfhie ef'Aaiailte." . Three American directors have been enga/^e^L and_tbW have bougbtcup the Get,: St. la- tereat ha the eaae eC WKr ager of ttreo f^ttnca. h e woea mt 'tUOiind Indi, laraiaUd aoaae daya^ "ago on a^^ .dMi»e^«^.Tlbtailiw..«he Gtanday eloBbig ' •ipw»i^-:'''^>-■;•. V {■ '^iRw L-W.'W^ eleitaent In Marion-took" advantage of the arrest to pull off a little riot \ Next day Miss Spurr came out. with a full page ad. in the pat>er8, denying that she had anything to do with the riot, and denouncing the ."Reds" who took advantage of her at-, tempt to provide deeairt;;^<iitei^bdnimaf ^ for the citizenry. To prove she Was not.connected wltS them^ .-Dolly announced her theatres would be closed on-the followiog Sun-, day... and on. Sondaya thereafter, until ;; the vooMb oocfH-^toeMla her ZEIBIEB TAKES TOTJNa SEB33E3. Samuel Zelrler of the Cummc ..th Film Corp. has secijred the rights jf- the C'ara Kinr.ball Young series of fea- tures made by the Equity for the New York territory. The Comndonwealtikl: luu taken ofBces in .he Hallmark- Ex- change at 1600 JBroadway. The firat of the aerlea; "The Eyes of Yotttb.** la to **e rdeaaed in alwut two- ALCO FILM 8ETTLEMENT. Seaman Miller, referee in bankruptcy, will hold a meeting at hia offlce, 2 Rector street, at 1 p. m., Nov. 6, to end the trusteeship, having charge of the Alco Film's affairs. Disposal of property and: claims will be made and Charles Ab< rams' offer to pay $260 apiece for stored fUna hotaiglng to Aloa ZaSu Pitts Starring. ZaSu Pitts will shortly mc'cc her de- a atar under the Brentwood. EtaretoCor^ ahe baa ^ been fea<»