Wid's Filmdom (1920)

CRETARTOS,, The BRADSTREET of FILMDOM Vol. VII. No. 73 Price 25c. Sunday, June 13, 1920 Copyright 1920, Wid’s Film and Film Folks, Inc. Published Daily at 71-73 West 44th St., New York, N. Y., by WID’S FILMS AND FILM FOLKS, INC. F. C. (“Wid”) Gunning, President and Treasurer; Joseph Dannenberg, Vice-President and Editor; J. W. Alicoate, Secretary and Business Manager. Entered as second-class matter May 21, 1918, at the post office at New York, N. Y., under the Act of March 3, 1879. Terms (Postage free) United States, Outside of Greater New York, $10.00 one year; 6 months, $5.00; 3 months, $3.00. Foreign, $15.00. Subscribers should remit with order. Address all communications to WID’S DAILY, 71-73 West 44th St., New York, N. Y. Telephone: Vanderbilt 4551-4552-5558 Hollywood, California: Editorial and Business Offices: 6411 Hollywood Boulevard. Phone, Hollywood 1603 Chicago Representatives: Willis & Eckels, 6th Floor, Consumers Building, Chicago, Ill. -London Representative: W. A. Williamson, Kinematograph ; 85 Long Acre, London, W.-C. 2: Paris Representative: Le Film, 144 Rue Montmartre. Weekly, Features Reviewed Hobart Bosworth in...... BELOW THE SURFACE Ince Special—Paramount-Artcraft ..... Page 3 Buipere: Piughes’ ©. ee oes ss SCRATCH MY BACK Eminent Authors-Goldwyn ......... immage 0 Mario Davies in: .. 3 or... os... THE RESTLESS SEX Cosmopolitan-Paramount-Artcraft ..... Page 6 Edith Roberts in.............. ALIAS MISS DODD PaRPEM OT SAILOR <7 UME oS. a se eo eo Page 7 BISCIAPIEISICHT 192) . o,f aes, 3 A WORLD OF FOLLY RCM eOMES ee Reel os. cp Babe “ghee a oi edeys Page 9 UIE TIM SOME 1115'S. Pas Mes + «2s Oe A TOKIO SIREN Rewer.) eee... . ts > ate Page 11 Dorothy Gish in REMODELING HER HUSBAND Beat ALT CO gto. ome ss Es gg tS Page 12 Romaine Fielding in............ A WOMAN’S MAN eeetastreetttit COL gi oo. < «5 aegis. ale Page 13 H. B. Warner in.... UNCHARTERED CHANNELS Hampton-Robertson-Cole Page 15 LOVE’S FLAME Fidelity Pictures Corp.-State Rights.... Page 17 Short Reels News of the Week in Headlines He Monday H. M. Thomas leaves Rialto, Omaha, to direct thea ters of Famous Players-Canadian corporation. Motion picture executives and exhibitors from all sections of the country gather in Cleveland for National Association meeting and exhibitor convention. Tuesday Robert W. ChamIsaac Wolper be Messmore Kendall affiliated with bers in new picture company. lieved interested. Oscar A. Price and Fred B. Warren of Associated Producers return to New York from California. Selznick Fort Enteprises acquire Paragon studios, Lee.» Now the largest producer in the East. Edgar Lewis to make series of specials for Pathe. oF Wednesday Nationak,Association meets in Cleveland. W. A. Brady refuses to run for president. Election scheduled for Fall. Sydney Cohen opens exhibitor convention in Cleve land. Thursday Hiram Abrams elected president of United Artists. Independent M. P. Exhibitors of America and M. P. Theater Owners of America form one association in. Cleveland. M. P. Exhibitors of America, Inc.—the™ A. S. Black League—withdraws. 7 | Mayflower to specialize on big productions for next Will not feature director. Robertson Cole studio planned for Los Angeles will cost $500,000. Metro acquires -“The: Great Redeemer,” a season. Maurice Tourneur production. Friday Sydney Cohen elected president of combined exhibitor organizations. A> S. Black<calls M.-P. E. A. convention in New York for July 28, 29. Harry Koplar to start action for recovery of ten St. Louis theaters from Famous Players. Saturday Madge Kennedy Pictures Corp. formed. Star plats four a year. Coast producers form new organization to buy ma terial and props collectively. “Pardoning the bad is injuring the good”—Benjamin Franklin,