Motion Picture News (Oct 1915)

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92 MOTION PICTURE NEWS Vol. 12. No. 15. FULL HOUSES ON DULL NIGHTS How to get them! How to keep them told of in our new fall catalogue which is now ready. This book is keeping pace with the new developments of this fast growing industry. NEW IDEAS for the LOBBY BEAUTIFUL. Every live SHOWMAN can procure this book for the asking. Appropriate souvenirs to fit any occasion. The latest GRAVURE FOLDER that looks as big as your price of admission. Samples sent with catalogue. KRAUS MFG. CO. 22ft West 42nd St., New York, N. Y. PRINTING and DEVELOPING IN TWELVE HOURS PROMPT — EXPERT — DEPENDABLE 4c. PER FOOT COMPLETE TITLE 5c. PER FOOT OUTPUT 1,000,000 FEET PER WEEK Liberty Motion Picture Laboratories GERMANTOWN PHILADELPHIA PENNSYLVANIA Tear out this advertisement, write your name on the margin, mail it to us today, and you will receive particulars by return mail NATHAN MYERS Architect WOOLWORTH BUILDING Broadway & Park Place New York City COURT THEATRE BUILDING Market & High Streets Newark, N. J. Telephones Newark Markef 5254 Long Island Sayville 41 New York Barclay 6274 Residence Waverly 2670 Graduate of College of Architecture, Cornell University , Twenty Years Individual Practice Consultant to other architects and to builders QUALITY means EVANS means PERFECTION We Do Particular Work for Particular People Developing and Printing ONLY Evans Film Manufacturing Company Numbers 41S-416-429-422 West 216th Street Telephone 6tSl Audubon NEW YORK CITY WORLD FILM AND LORRIMORE EXPLAIN IN SUIT World Film Corporation announces that Supreme Court Justice Pendleton, of New York County, on September 29 signed a summons against Alec Lorrimore, who was charged by the World Film Corporation with having made statements injurious to the solvency and credit of that company. World Film Corporation is suing Mr. Lorrimore for $100,000 damages. The summons is returnable to him on October 17. According to the World Film Corporation, in February, 1915, they released a motion picture “The Adventures of a Boy Scout,” in which Mr. Lorrimore was commercially interested. It is alleged that in August of this year, after discussing with Lewis J. Selznick, the construction to be placed upon the terms of the contract, Mr. Lorrimore took exception to it. Subsequently he is declared to have circulated the statement that a number of the creditors of the World Film Corporation were going to file a petition in involuntary bankruptcy against the company and have a receiver appointed. The effect of these rumors and slanders was to reflect injuriously on the World Film Corporation, for which that company is seeking damages against Mr. Lorrimore. Affidavits in support of the World Film Corporation’s claim against Mr. Lorrimore have been filed. In a letter to Motion Picture News, Mr. Lorrimore says : “We leased a film to the World Film Corporation last December on a fifty-fifty basis. Since then we have not received one cent for our share of the bookings, although to our knowledge a large sum of money has been collected, evidence of which we have. “We endeavored to get a settlement from Mr. Selznick and the World Film, but we were unable to do so, as they claim that after allowing for the cost of prints from the negative, all surplus was due them for advertising, although our contract expressly states otherwise. “The World Film Corporation endeavored to get the District Attorney to take action against me. This was thrown out. This led to their beginning an action for slander.” COUR MADE MANAGING DIRECTOR OF PRODUCERS’ SERVICE COMPANY UGENE J. COUR, formerly with the “Hearst-Selig News Pictorial,” has been appointed managing director of the Producers’ Service Company. Mr. Cour is superintending the completion of the new laboratories of the company, giving them a much increased capacity. Mr. Cour for a number of years has been connected with the Chicago newspapers, both in an editorial capacity and as manager of photographic departments. Two years ago he turned his attention to moving pictures, and as a camera operator in the Central West and South has achieved some notable beats. As a close student of the technical side of motion pictures, Mr. Cour has become thoroughly familiar with the manufacturing end. METRO ENGAGES WELL-KNOWN ARTIST TO DESIGN POSTERS FOR “TABLES TURNED’ Edward Simmons, the well-known artist and interior decorator, who is in New York to execute a commission for decorations in the home of John D. Rockefellar at Pocantico Hills, has been engaged by the Metro Pictures Corporation to design the posters to be used in the forthcoming Rolfe-Metro production, “Tables Turned,” in which Emmy Wehlen is starred. Mr. Simmons will make his designs under the direction of Robert E. Irvin, who has personal supervision of the Metro poster department. TERRISS SOON TO RELEASE FIRST OF HIS COMEDIES THROUGH PICTURE PLAYHOUSE TOM TERRISS, who recently turned his attention from the “legit” to personally directing the feature motion picture company which bears his name, has entered the lists as a director of comedies. The Terriss pictures are being released exclusively through the Picture Playhouse Film Company, Inc., New York City, and there are now in the hands of this distributing agency a number of prints of the first of the Terriss comedies, which is soon to be released under the title of “Papa’s Wife.” -able of tontenls will hereafter be found every week opposite inside back cover.