Motography (Jan-Jun 1913)

104 MOTOGRAPHY Vol. IX, No. 3 den; H. A. Spanuth, vice-president. Other members are: J. H. Drayer and Sidney Ascher. Nostrand avenue, west side, 20 South Fulton street, Brooklyn, new walls, etc. 1 story, moving pictures ; cost $10,000. Owner, Bero Company; architect, Shampan & Shampan, 772 Broadway. Fire started in the Plattsburgh Theater at Plattsburgh during an exhibition of moving pictures at 9 o'clock on a recent night. The blaze, which was caused by a short circuit of electric wires, lasted about fifteen minutes and was confined to the lamp house of the theater in the corridor. There was a large audience, but no one was injured. Many rushed into the halls or down the outside fire escapes. Through the prompt action of the theater employes a stream of water was playing almost instantly upon the flames. The manager of the house shouted that the fire was confined entirely to the film house and the more courageous remained to watch the work of subduing it. After about three-quarters of an hour the performance was resumed. On Saratoga avenue, Brooklyn, a moving-picture building will be erected at a cost of $10,000. Owner, Faiber Construction Company, 1715 Park place; architect, Alexander Faiber. Dreamland Theater at Auburn was threatened by fire shortly after six o'clock, when a motion-picture reel, which one of the proprietors, E. C. Day, was testing, became ignited. The fire spread to the booth and to articles on a shelf. The firemen arrived in time to extinguish the blaze before it made headway outside the booth. The theater was empty at the time. The film had given trouble when exhibited in the afternoon. NORTH CAROLINA. Otto Haas has made arrangements for the overhauling and remodeling of the Theater moving-picture place at Charlotte at an expenditure of several thousand dollars. OHIO. Curt Jones of Zanesville is reported to have bought the Star moving-picture theater in Mansfield. A motion-picture theater is to be built at the corner of Mills and Main avenues in Norwood, Cincinnati. A. C. Dinglestedt, owner. Because they paid a license of $150 in 1910 for operating a moving-picture theater for one year, owners of the Princess, Royal, Crown and Jewele Theaters in Toledo will not have to pay for a license fee in 1913. Council adopted a resolution to that effect at its most recent meeting. The four theater owners paid promptly in 1910, when the ordinance provided for a license of $150. Later the fee was cut to $50 and the delinquents did not pay the same price as the owners of the four theaters mentioned. For the past two years the owners of the four theaters tried to have the $100 remitted, but a compromise was effected and the owners were satisfied with being relieved from securing a license for next year. Plans are being made by Architects Zettel & Rapp for a theater of the motion-picture type, to be built adjoining the northeast corner of Pearl street and Broadway, Cincinnati, facing on the former thoroughfare. It will contain about 300 seats and may be called the Coliseum. The owner is the Broadway Realty Company, which will be headed by Real Estate Broker Wilson. A motion-picture theater to cost about $30,000 is to be built at Camp Washington, Cincinnati, by Lawrence Bueche, owner. For the first time in the history of Springfield, the motionpicture theaters were opened for business on a Sabbath, December 22 and were not disturbed by the authorities. The proprietors announced that thejr would give 12 per cent of the receipts to the District Tuberculosis Hospital and hope to evade the state law governing common labor on Sunday. Recently they made a test case, and Judge Busch, of the Police Court, held that the selling of tickets for a motion-picture show was common labor, which is prohibited by the law on Sunday unless it is done in the interest of charity. PENNSYLVANIA. Ernesto Carbone was granted a permit to demolish the old hall building, Nos. 763-65 South Eighth street, Philadelphia, preparatory to the erection there of a moving-picture theater. Keno Feature Film Company, Pittsburgh ; capital, $5,000. Incorporators : Manfred Feitler, Adolph Klem and M. Teplitz, Pittsburgh. Samuel Schulz, alterations to moving-picture house, southwest corner Franklin and Clearfield street, Philadelphia, for M. /.essey; cost, $4,500. Anderson & Haupt are preparing plans for a moving-picture theater at the northeast corner of Twenty-fifth and Carbria streets, Philadelphia, for the Interstate Film Company. Plans have been prepared for the erection of a new movingpicture theater by the Nixon-Nirdlinger interests in Germantown, Philadelphia. Contracts for the erection of a new motion-picture theater for William H. Snyder of Lancaster has been awarded to L. V. Wright, contractor. SOUTH DAKOTA. Capitalists of Broadland are figuring on erecting a modern opera house in that town. TEXAS. Arangements have been made to open a new playhouse at Goliad. The Von Dohlen building will be converted into a motion-picture theater. The wok of putting in a raised floor and making other improvements on the building next to the postoffice at Belton is under way. The building, when improvements are completed, will be occupied by a moving-picture show operated by Walter King of Houston. J. F. Morris has just completed the construction of a $10,000 theater building on Commerce street, Jacksonville, which will be used by the "New John's Theater" is exhibiting moving pictures. C. T. Mahler and associates will erect a moving-picture theater at Temple ; cost $25,000 ; on Avenue A, 5th and 3rd streets. The Crystal moving-picture theater, at Temple, has been closed and the room remodeled as a storeroom. The theater was owned by Campbell and Winch, who built the new Wigwam theater, across the street. The Baker Moving Picture Show Company at Gonzales has leased the Reuter lot and will erect a building. Plans are prepared for the erection of a row of brick buildings at Postoffice and Twenty-fifth street, Houston. The buildings are to be put up by Dr. E. B. Kenner, and one of them is to be a modern theater for colored people, which will cost $20,000. The theater has been leased to the Lincoln Amusement Company for five years and $5,000 has been paid on the lease. Cliett & Bledsoe have disposed of their movrng picture show at Houston to J. W. Pinkerton, who has taken charge of same. Messrs. Cliett & Bledsoe have a picture show in Rockdale and intend opening another in Southwest Texas. VIRGINIA. Thoroughly remodeled and rearranged, equipped with powerful moving picture machine, steam heated and well ventilated, the Lyric theater at Suffolk has opened its doors under a new and progressive management, that of Messrs. Matics and Spence, who so successfully managed the Academy for the past year or more. Four reels of pictures are shown each night at this pleasant playhouse, the only five cent show house in Suffolk. The program is changed nightly. WASHINGTON. Construction has been completed on a new motion-picture theater in South Tacoma, at South Tacoma avenue and 54th street. The theater itself opened for business previous to completion, construction being far enough along to permit with out violating the city building odinances. Fred Yorktheimer is the owner of the new building, and the owner of the theater is R. R. Pratt. C. F. W. Lundberg is the architect. The building is wired on conduit, and otherwise constructed to conform strictly with the ordinances of the city of Tacoma. Its cost is $4,000. WEST VIRGINIA. A house about to be razed is being looked for by the Royal Film Company at Wheeling. The house will be set on fire and moving pictures taken of the Wheeling fire laddies at work. F. H. Lange, Lou Gutman, Samuel Ungerieder and others are reported to erect a theater at 14th and Market streets, Wheeling. Considerable inquiry is being made by citizens of Warwood relative to the time of erecting the building to be used as a nickelodeon, at the corner of Twenty-first and Main streets. _ C. D. Thompson, of Wheeling, who represents the company which proposes to establish the moving picture show stated, in answer to an inquiry, that work on the building will be commenced shortly after the first of the coming year, and it is expected to open the show for business next spring. W. G. Baxter and Geold & DiVall will open a moving picture theater at Montfort and the opera house is being remodeled for it. WISCONSIN. Paul R. Philleo of Tomahawk has purchased the Bijou at Rhinelander. P. J. Hanson, the former proprietor, is to retire from the business. Disliking the idea of providing Sunday amusement in Eau Claire, Leon Shumway has purchased the Rex Theater. He intends to run the pictures six days a week and make a profit. The Marinette Film Company has been organized with a capital stock of $5,000 at Marinette. The incorporators are Horace C. Baker, E. D. Galineau and L. J. Evans. The new company will produce moving-picture plays.