Motography (Jan-Jun 1913)

February 1, 1913. MOTOGRAPHY 103 a good attendance. Motion pictures are new in Eastman. The show is operated by Percy Lyon, a local musician. IDAHO. Nampa has a third theater, and incidentally it is the largest in the state. The Nampa theater, with a seating capacity of 1,200, owned by J. L. Jolley, Jr., of Emmett, has been completely painted and decorated and a machine room and other equipment installed. At the same time the house will remain in the theatrical circuit and on nights that good attractions can be booked they will take the preference. The Orpheum, another picture and vaudeville house, undergoes a change in management. It has been sold by Alexander & Tschumy to Messrs. Charles E. Freine and Austin E. Anson. ILLINOIS. The Ryan building will be remodeled into a theater for moving pictures Located on South California street, Sycamore. John Peterson, manager. Plans are being made to open up a new moving picture theater in the Joachim building at Smithfield. The New Main street theater in Galesburg which is being prepared for the public by W. H. Sullivan, Joe Johnston and city clerk Ben Huff, is rapidly being completed and the interior will be most ornate. The proprietors are sparing no pains to make the interior the best and most attractive moving picture theater in the city and in the remodeling of the building some extra masonry work has been necessary on the rear to make needed room. Plans are being considered for the erection of a new moving picture theater to be erected at Springfield by Allardt Brothers, of Chicago. George L. Rapp, architect. Colonial Photo-play Theater Company, Joliet, capital $12,000, moving picture business. Incorporators, F. L. Scheidt, R. C. MacMullen, L. H. Sandford The Colonial Theater in the Colonial Hotel building at Jerseyville opened under the management of Robt. O. Bell who was almost the pioneer in the picture show business in Jerseyville. He has purchased Mr. Stephenson's new picture machine. Five good reels of pictures will be given every night. Forest Fletcher, son of Mr. and Mrs. James Fletcher, of Springfield, has purchased the Princess Theater in Peru and will continue conducting it as a moving picture house. Lloyd Longcor has purchased the interest in the Felsman moving picture show at Pallas City. St. Joseph is to have a moving picture theater. INDIANA. Repesentative John B. Jones of Marshall county has prepared a bill for introduction in the House to provide for the appointment of a state board of censors, consisting of two members, which shall pass upon and approve or reject all moving picture films before they are exhibited in Indiana. The bill is likely to meet with stubborn resistance from a local organization of moving picture theater proprietors. Slater and Patten will open a moving picture theater in Warsaw. An order to make several alterations in the moving picture theater at 504 East Washington street, Indianapolis, has been sent to William Kirchner, proprietor, by Thomas A. Winterrowd, city building inspector. E. A. Thompson of the Thompson Amusement Company, Chicago, is looking for a site for the erection of a moving picture building and was considering the purchase of the Princess Theater at La Porte. The ban of the Indiana Motion Picture Association has been placed on the proprietors of motion picture houses of South Bend, because they have refused to assist in the state-wide campaign to legalize the Sunday opening of theaters. The theater owners in South Bend refused to get into the fight because the local municipal authorities permit the places of amusement to operate on theSabbath, and for that reason they decided to let well enough alone and keep on neutral ground. IOWA. Justice C. H. Jackson has leased the Auditorium at Mount Pleasant from the owner, Dennis Moreny, and will operate a moving picture show. Charles Curl will convert his restaurant at Bloomfield into a motion picture house. . E. W. Johnson has sold his moving picture business at Coin to Frank Dutton, who will take possession. Milo will have a picture show. J. D. Banning of Des Moines has leased the opera house and installed a picture machine. J. E. Anderson has sold his moving picture show at Logan to George Wood. Manager Krauth of the Germania Opera House at Denison said the opera house would be converted into a motion picture theater. C. J. Morris, manager of the Electric Theater at Ellsworth, will remodel same. Because 500 feet of moving picture films in a theater in Hampton were too close to a stove that became overheated, the material exploded, causing a bad fire and wrecking the building. The ladies of the Progress Club of Iowa Falls went to the moving picture show in a body one recent night at the invitation of the proprietor, the attraction being pictures of factory scenes portraying child labor. J. E. Benton will now have a monopoly practically on the picture shows in Albia. He will conduct two shows, using both the Comet and the Scenic. KANSAS. The new Umstot building, which is being erected at 103 North Main street, Hutchinson, for a theater building, has been leased by E. Wayne Martin who will conduct the playhouse. The theater will be nicely arranged for both motion picture purposes and as a vaudeville house. There will be a large stage, a sloping main floor, and a balcony for overflow purposes. A fire completely destroyed the Reid Opera House building at Lebo. Loss, $12,000. The Columbia Theater, Coffeyville, was sold to M. O. Houlden of the Star Theater, 804 Walnut street. LOUISIANA. The Princess Theater, a moving picture house at Monroe, was put out of business recently by a fire that had its origin in a burning reel. The reel was on the rewind and not in the picture machine when it caught fire. The helper in the operating room thought to save the room and other reels by throwing the burning film into the auditorium, but instead he made matters worse. The celluloid film flashed up. setting fire to the rear seats and the heavy curtains in front of the entrance. The young lady ticket seller was forced to climb out through the window of the ticket office. Less damage was done inside the operating room than on the outside. The accident happened just as the theater was opened for the night and there was no one in the house at the time. The damage was about $3,000, partly covered by insurance. Plans are being prepared for the erection of a theater at Longville, Lake Charles. MARYLAND. The work of erecting the new motion picture parlor and vaudeville theater on the site of the Maryland Medical College at 1110 West Baltimore street, Baltimore, will start at an early date. The plans for the structure, which were prepared by Architect J. C. Spedden, call for a one-story building 78 by 124 feet, which is to have a concrete foundation and an ornamental brick facade. The interior will be designed after the fashion of the latest structure of its kind and will be large. MONTANA. Miles City is to have a new $15,000 moving-picture playhouse, Protection of theater audiences from fire is the purpose of an ordinance passed at Bozeman by the city council, which prohibits smoking within the walls of a theater qr_ moving-picture house while an audience is present or an exhibition is going on. The passage of the ordinance was at the instance of the fire department. It is aimed at the stage hands, performers when behind the scenes, and the public who bring in lighted cigars or throw lighted stumps on the floor. NEBRASKA. The Happy Hour Theater, a moving-picture show which has been located on N street, Havelock, for two years, has been sold by Mrs. J. S. Willan to Young and Middlecomb, owners of the Joy, another moving-picture show, the fixtures removed and the show discontinued. NEW JERSEY. A moving-picture theater is soon to be constructed at 94 Hamburg place, Newark, for Albert T. Sessing. Cost $8,000. NEW YORK. The theater which W. P. Murphy is constructing on the site of the former Nichols house, in Pulteney square at Bath, is nearing completion, and will be used for the first time at the Masonic fair, the last week in January. Its formal opening as a theater will be one week later. The ownership of the Motion World, the picture theater in the Smith block at Geneva passed from the control of M.' L. Walley & Company to William Bisons of Syracuse. Charles F. Rodock of Syracuse will be the manager. Mr. Bisons announced that the policy of the house will be the same as it has been in the past few months, and that it will be devoted to high class pictures, interspersed with vaudeville and special features. The Sun Film Corporation has been incorporated in New York for the purpose of producing and marketing films of multiple reel length. The officers are : Tobias A. Keppler, presi