Motography (Jan-Jun 1918)

330 MOTOGRAPHY Vol. XiX, No. 7 "Split Reel" Notes For Theater Men SNAPPY ITEMS OF INTEREST TO OWNERS AND MANAGERS EVIDENCE is accumulating that the theatrical world had firm faith in the future. In the last week many new companies have been launched. In New York state nine new companies were chartered with an aggregate capital of $147,750. All of the companies will do business in New York City. The companies, with their capital, their objects and their officials, are as follows: Associated N o v e 1 i s t s' Distributing Corporation. To produce, exchange and operate motion picture films, machines and devices used in the business. Capital $100,000. Directors, Charles A. Weeks, James A. Abbott and James R. Garrett. Devry Corporation, Inc., New York City. Motion picture cameras and devices of all kinds. Capital, $5,000. Directors, Samuel L. Frank, George J. Chryssikos and Isaac Covino. Jason Building Company. To operate theaters and playhouses. Capital, $10,000. Directors, Helen White, Meyer Klein and Alexander Werner. The Love Mill Corporation. To produce, manage and exploit theatrical, musical, vaudeville and other amusement attractions. Capital, $5,000. Directors, A. S. Levy, Max Freedman and Max J. Josephson. Motion Picture Story Sales Corporation. Motion picture films of various kinds. Capital, $10,000. Directors, P. H. Sloane, Joseph P. S. Shelby and Charles Glass S. & M. Palace Theater Corporation, New York City. To operate motion picture theaters. Capital, $5,000. Directors, Max Spiro, Jacob Borodkin and Isidore Papason Trachtenberg. Hitchcock-Fulton Theater Corporation. To maintain theaters and provide for the production of dramatic and other stage attractions, including motion pictures. Capital $1,250. Directors, E. J. Chambers, E. A. Reilly and Grace Wilkinson. Northern Producing Company. Theatrical and motion picture proprietors and managers. Capital, $10,000. Directors, Solomon Goodman, Gilbert G. Barry and Robert Walker. Garden Film Corporation. To operate theaters for theatrical and motion picture purposes, also to deal in apparatus and equipment for motion picture business. Capital, $1,500. Two new companies have been formed in Cincinnati. One is the CincinnatiColumbus Amusement Company and the other is the Inter-City First National Exhibitors' Company. Both are capitalized for $10,000 and I. Libson, one of Cincinnati's most prominent exhibitors, has a large interest in each company. The Inter-City First National Exhibitors' Company is to handle the franchises of the First National Exhibitors' Circuit, which controls Charlie Chaplin, Petrova, Brenon and other big features in Cincinnati, Hamilton, Dayton and Columbus. * * * Exhibitors at Knoxville, Tenn., are anxiously awaiting a decision in the circuit court there that may determine definitely whether or not they can keep open on Sundays. Several exhibitors were arrested when they kept open, but they were released by Judge Lanier, who held they had a legal right to do so, under a ruling by City Attorney Livingston, providing they gave their profits to charity. The city appealed the cases and Mayor Litty said the forthcoming decision would be final so far as the city was concerned. + * * A serious panic was narrowly averted at the Strand Theater in Washington, D. C, by the presence of mind of Bob Burchard, assistant operator. When a roll of film ignited, Burchard, who was in the operating room alone, closed the fireproof door and extinguished the blaze bv himself. The audience was unaware of anything unusual until an explandticj was made from the stage. * * * Almost one hundred film men of Montreal gathered at the Ritz-Carlton hotel the other evening to honor J. Sperdakos of the Independent Amusement Company, Limited, which controls several theaters, in view of his approaching marriage to Miss Poletoine Pappas. The guest of the evening was presented with a variety of electric utensils and a handsome lamp standard. * ♦ * Special slides have been sent to every moving picture theater in Canada from the office of the food controller at Ottawa. The slides bear messages relative to the necessity of conservation and for increase in the production of foodstuffs. It is officially estimated that they will be seen by no less than 1,750,000 people in one week. There are only 7,000,000 people in Canada. Thus one-fourth of the population go to the movies every week. * * * Sam G. Gibson, a long-experienced exhibitor of Montreal and also a wellknown exchange man, has joined the Montreal staff of Metro. * * * At least four theaters in Little Rock, Ark. — the Majestic, Royal, Crystal and Gem — are in the lucky class. They are A striking front of the Orpheum Theater, a big house in Chicago's loop.