Motography (Jan-Jun 1918)

286 MOTOGRAPHY Vol. XIX, No. 6 "Split Reel" Notes For Theater Men SNAPPY ITEMS OF INTEREST TO OWNERS AND MANAGERS Buys Kalamazoo House THE Fuller Theater in Kalamazoo has been taken over by W. S. Butterfield in the interest of a corporation. Feature films will alternate with road shows. Machine Company Incorporates The Color Motion Picture Corporation has filed articles of incorporation at Dover, Del. The corporation deals in picture machines. It is capitalized for $500,000. Takes Out Big Policy The Penn Mutual, Prudential, and Mutual Life have issued a $100,000 insurance policy to H. O. Davis, vice-president and general manager of the Triangle Film Corporation. General Film Moves General Film Company, New York, has settled in its comfortable new quarters on the seventeenth floor of the Berkeley Building at 25 West Fortyfourth street, one of the finest buildings in the city. Michigan Theater Burns The Temple Theater at Alpena, Mich., was destroyed by fire twenty minutes after 500 persons had filed out upon the conclusion of the final performance. The house was owned by William A. Cornstock. The loss is estimated at $15,000. Woman Made Manager Miss Alpha Speck, who has been cashier and assistant manager of the Gem Theater at Little Rock, Ark., for three years, has been promoted to manager by Saul Harris. Miss Speck succeeds Percy Scholer, who has joined the quartermaster's department at Camp Bowie. Theaters Bar Children At the request of the commanding officer of Fort Ogelthorpe, orders have been issued by the city government of Chattanooga, Tenn., to theater managers to refuse temporarily the admittance of children to all shows on account of the prevalence of numerous cases of cerebro spinal meningitis. New Branch Manager G. W. Whitney, an experienced film salesman and executive of several years' standing, has just been appointed manager of General Film Company's branch office at Denver. He leaves the management of the Mutual exchange at Butte. Mr. Whitney formerly owned a theater in Denver. New Company Formed Articles of incorporation have been filed at Harrisburg, Pa., by the Sealed Orders Motion Picture Corporation, a company formed to produce pictures with a capital of $250,000. The incorporators are Arthur W. Britton, Louis H. Gunther and George V. Reilly of New York City. Titian License Revoked The license committee of the Illinois Council of Defense has revoked the license of the Titian Pictures Corporation to show "The Garden of Allah" in aid of soldiers and sailors, the contention being that the corporation failed to live up to its agreement. Charges of stock jobbing were denied by Frederick Russell Clark, Titian's president. He said the corporation was not selling stock. Titian is capitalized for $1,000,000. Pastor Writes Scenario Permission has been given the More Deadly Than Battle, Inc., a corporation formed to produce a picture by that name, to issue 30,000 shares of stock to the Rev. Paul Smith, in exchange for the scenario and other services, ana to sell 30,000 shares at $1 a share at not less than 90. The permit provides that until the cash investors have been repaid the full amount of their investment the minister shall not receive dividends on his stock to exceed $2,000. "Extras" Pay to Work The Red Cross profited by several hundred dollars recently as the result of a scene made at the Vitagraph western studio for "The. Woman in the Web," the serial in which Hedda Nova, the Russian actress, and J. Frank Glendon are to be starred. Some of the most prominent Los Angeles and Pasadena society women, numbering among them members of the winter colony, appeared as "extras" in the White House ball room scene and not only wore their own jewels and gowns, but paid for the privilege of appearing in the picture, the money being turned over to the Red Cross. Mae Marsh Christens House When Poughkeepsie's new $100,000 motion picture theater, the Stratford, opened for the first time recently, the honor of the first attraction fell to a Goldwyn production — Mae Marsh, in "The Cinderella Man." The Stratford is distinctly a Poughkeepsie institution, made possible by the public spirit and interest of the following named subscribers: Ely Elting, Herbert R. Gurney, John Lurie, W. De Garmo Smith, D. W. Wilbur, Dr. H. L. Salsbury, Albert F. Schwartz, John H. Doherty, Edward E. Perkins and C. W. H. Arnold. It is located at the corner of Liberty and Cannon streets and is the largest theater for the exclusive production of photoplays in that section of the state. Mae Murray and Kenneth Harlan in a scene from the Bluebird offering, "The Morals of an Actress."