Motography (Apr-Dec 1911)

198 MOTOGRAPHY Vol. VI, No. 4. corporators are Sylvester Grove, Adam Eigelbach, Edward J. Tobe, Theodore B. Droppelman, Henry G. Peltier. The company has prepared plans for a theater to be erected on Preston street, near Camp at an approximate cost of $10,000. L. J. Dittmar, with local capitalists, is planning a large new motion picture theater to occupy the site of the Majestic theater, in Fourth street, near Chestnut. It will cost approximately $75,000 and will have a seating capacity of 1,500. LOUISIANA. The Musee moving picture theater, Milan street, between Louisiana and McNeil streets, Shreveport, is under new management and some changes will be inaugurated, one of which is the reduction of the price of admission to 5 cents. J. Lala, a prosperous merchant of Algiers, will erect a new moving picture theater in that town. MARYLAND. Messrs. Wertheimer Bros, of Cumberland will erect a magnificent three-story building in that city the first floor of which will be used as a moving picture theater, modern in every respect and having a seating capacity of 600. MASSACHUSETTS. The Elite Moving Picture Palace of Palmer has been purchased by the Grand Amusement Company, which operates a number of other theaters, three of them in Holyoke. Michael K. Connelly and Simon Frankel, proprietors of the Central Square theater, of Lynn, have leased the Broadway theater at Lawrence for a term of ten years and have opened the same with daylight pictures. The house has been entirely renovated and lady ushers is one of the new features. MICHIGAN. The Orpheum is the name of a new moving picture theater recently opened at Kalamazoo under the management of L. C. Barnes. It is one of the handsomest moving picture theaters in western Michigan and enjoys a deserved patronage. Mr. Barnes is also manager of the Gem theater of that city which has recently been renovated and redecorated. Messrs. Glen Cross, Harry Lipp and P. G. Klemos will one^ a moving picture theater on East Main street, Battle Creek. Messrs. Cross and Lipp are owners of the Queen theater and have had wide experience in the moving picture field. They will also continue to operate the Queen theater. Artura Paoli, of South Range, one of the proprietors of the Royal Moving Picture theater, has been granted a patent on a device for moving picture machines. His invention is an improvement in magic lanterns, consisting of novel constructions and combinations of parts to be placed on the projector for operating slides, without touching them with the hands after they have been placed in a magazine. The device consists of a frame containing two magazines for the slides and a slide carrier. _ The slides are placed in a magazine at the left of the machine and it is only necessary to move a little lever to convey them to a position in front of the light and when each slide has been displayed a sufficient length of time the lever is worked again and the slide is carried over into the discard magazine and the following slide is brought before the light without any interruption. MINNESOTA. The R. J. Cheney Company will erect a moving picture theater at 808 East Lake street, Minneapolis, at a cost of $3,000. Minneapolis moving picture exhibitors recently planned a state organization for the uplift of the general tone of movingpicture films. The organization will be affiliated with the National Moving Picture Exhibitors' Association, and will have members in every town in the state where moving pictures are exhibited. The object of these organiations is to induce film manufacturers to improve the quality of their films, employ better moving picture play writers and better actors, and increase the number of educational and religious films. F. O. Boxrud will conduct a moving picture theater in the Pendergast building, Madison. The Lyric Theater Company of Virginia have prepared plans for the erection of a moving picture theater. F. E. English, who formerly conducted a moving picture theater at New Ulm, has leased the C. Rinkel building, Minnesota avenue, St. Peter, and will conduct a first-class moving picture theater. The Lyceum, a moving picture theater of Gilbert, has been purchased by Howard Carey of Biwabik who will improve the same. A moving picture theater will be erected at Fairmont by Frank St. John. Articles of incorporation have been filed for the Princess Theater Circuit Company of St. Cloud, capitalized at $25,000. The company will operate the Princess theater in that city, the Milo theater at Little Falls and will operate other moving picture and vaudeville houses throughout the northwest. The Lyric Theater Company of Virginia has prepared plans for the erection of a new moving picture theater. Lester Schwartz will open a moving picture theater at Winona. J. L. Denhart has sold his 'interest in the Gem theater in Pipestone, to M. H. Carey. MISSISSIPPI. The Alama is the name of a new moving picture house being erected at the corner of Washington and South streets, Vicksburg, which will be ready to open about the first of November. MISSOURI. The Parkview Amusement Company of St. Louis will erect a moving picture theater on Delmar boulevard, near Hamilton, that city, at a cost of $100,000. The O. T. Crawford Theater Syndicate of St. Louis wilt erect a moving picture theater on Kingshighway, north of Delmar boulevard, that city, which according to present plans will have a seating capacity of 2,000. A deal has been consummated whereby D. Orville Reese comes into possession of the Goodwin theater of Hannibal. The house has been thoroughly remodeled and the name changed tn the New Orpheum. A vaudeville and moving picture theater will be erected at the northeast corner of Vandeventer and Maffitt avenues, St. Louis by the Vaudeville Construction Company. It will have a seating capacity of 1,800 and will belong to the O. T. Crawford chain . The Electric theater at Pleasant Hill, formerly owned by John W. Wade, has been purchased by G. C. Heflebower, of Liberty. J. B. Ellis, who conducts the Fern theater at Marysville. has opened the Vouge theater at Bedford, la. Breyfogle Brothers will erect a moving picture theater at 2604 East Ninth street, Kansas City, at a cost of $3,000. The Vaudeville Theater Company has been granted permission to erect a $35,000 fire proof moving picture theater at 5851 Easton avenue, St. Louis. A. E. Holton has leased the Stephens opera house at Boonville and will conduct the same as a moving picture house. The Lyric theater on College street, Springfield, has been leased by R. B. McCormick who has thoroughly remodeled and renovated it and will conduct it as a moving picture and vaudeville house. The house has a seating capacity of 1,000 and will be known as the people's theater. Captain G. H. Peabody, formerly owner of the Gem theater, will be manager of the house. The St. Louis Motion Picture Protective Association was recently organied with the following officers : President, Joseph Mogler ; vice-president, D. T. Williams ; treasurer, J. W. Price ; secretary, E. Pohlmann. C. E. Gross will open a moving picture theater at Boonville about November 1st. It is claimed that the Hippodrome, soon to be opened in ' St. Louis, is not only the largest house in the United States, but will have a capacity of nearly a thousand more seats than the largest and is only exceeded in size by a motion picture theater in Paris, France. Every effort has been made to provide for the comfort and safety of the patrons. The house will be under the direct management of Frank Talhot, manager and promoter. Perfect sanitation is made possible by means of a saucer-shaped concrete floor with a sluice in the center, making it possible to flush the entire building daily with water. The Empress theater, Grand avenue and Olive streets, the Aubert, Aubert and Easton avenues, St. Louis, and the Washington, 4961 Olive street, St. Louis, are late additions to that city's list of moving picture theaters. Articles of incorporation have been filed at St. Louis for the Rainbow Amusement Company with a capital stock of $3,000. The incorporators are Spiro Stefanon, John Angelich and George Angelich. W. L. Gleason, proprietor of the Bijou theater at Brookfield, writes us that he has just completed the entire renovation of his theater at an expenditure of $6,000, and since reopening the same, has been, doing a big business. The improvements included a complete stage with good dressing rooms, nine sets of scenery and sanitary plumbing. The house is devoted to moving pictures with vaudeville occasionally. Mr. Gleason is an energetic, up-to-date exhibitor and believes the best is none too good for his patrons. Such exhibitors are a great influence for good in the industry, helping to place the business upon a higher and more permanent basis. •