Motion Picture News (Oct 1913 - Jan 1914)

THE MOTION PICTURE NEWS 39 PATHE ANIMAL PICTURES Mr. J. A. Berst, general manager of Pathe Freres, has just closed contracts which assure to that company a new and interesting field for the staging of Pathe plays. One contract was for a large number of wild animals which will be shipped by rail, Saturday, October 11, to St Augustine, Fla., there being seven carloads in all. Among the animals are 2 elephants, 2 camels, 2 ostriches, 10 lions, 2 tigers, 6 leopards, 6 bears and 2 kangaroos, in addition to monkeys, birds, snakes (one of them a python 18 feet long), pumas, hyenas, zebras and various kinds of deer. A large farm has been rented near St. Augustine, and an open-air studio will be erected at once. Big features only will be produced at this studio, three and four reels. A company of experienced players will leave for St. Augustine about the 20th of the month, there being over twenty people in the company. Among them will be Miss Lillian Wiggins. The company will be under the direction oi Mr. Fred Wright. Three 60-foot baggage cars are being sent express, and a special Pullman car will take the players. The transportation bill alone will amount to $5,000. There was some difficulty experienced in the matter of shipment of the ani HAVE YOU DECIDED TO USE BRASS LOBBY FRAMES? We are making the kind you should buy. O ur Special No. 2 Easel Frame with glass front and detachable compoboard back is great for $6.00, F. O. B. Cleveland, Ohio. THEATRE SPECIALTY MFG. CO., Inc. Remember to address us at our new home office and factory, Box 81 CLEVELAND, OHIO N. Y. office for Eastern trade only Heidelberg Bldg., 42d St., & Broadway mals, as the steamship lines refused to take them. GUNBY BROS. MOVE UP-TOWN The well-known firm of Gunby Bros., Inc., have removed their offices from 199 Third Avenue, where they have been located for a number of years, to larger offices in the Exchange Building, 145 West 45th Street. Mr. Gunby, Jr., is in charge, and is turning out work on film titles, developing and printing at short notice, as has been their policy heretofore. Francis Ford has just finished a virile drama entitled "Diamond Cut Diamond," by Grace Cunard. In this Francis Ford and Grace Cunard match their wits as wrong-doers, who eventually regret the wrong and right it. The story is a capital one, and is forcefully acted by Mr . Ford and Grace Cunard, with Harry Schumm, E. M. Kellar and Tony Jeanette in support. Kinematograph Weekly The Leading Motion Picture Publication of Great Britain and Colonies Sample Copies 10 cents For Advertising Rates Write ASSOCIATED INNING PICTURE PRESS 2S0A Kingston Ave., Brooklyn, N. Y. THE FIRST IN THE FIELD ASSOCIATED MOVING PICTURE PRESS moving Picture Hflvertising Placed In All Publications 250 A KINGSTON AVE., BROOKLYN, N. Y. DO YOU WANT MORE BUSINESS? We can tell you how to get it without a large expenditure of money. Our House-Filling Plan will boom your theatre and fill every empty seat. Send for a copy today, it cost: you nothing. A post card will bring it to your desk. ACT NOW. UNITED STATES FACTORIES COMPANY 180 N. MARKET STREET M. P. DEPT. CHICAGO, ILL. The Famous American Professional MOTION PICTURE CAMERA A Guaranteed Scientific Motographic Equipment. Perforators, Printers, Tripods, and Developing Outfits. Proven by Test the World's Very Best. Agents for Eastman Motion Picture Film. American Cinematograph Company Send for Catalog T 617=631 Jackson Blvd. Chicago, 111. In writing to advertisers please mention "THE MOTION PICTURE NEWS'