Motography (Apr-Dec 1911)

246 MOTOGRAPHY Vol. VI, No. 5. Edna Loftus, the dancer, formerly with Essanay, is confined to a hospital at Oakland. Bernardo, grand opera singer, has found acting before the camera very much to his liking. He was initiated at the Bison studio. Miss Graham, of the N. Y. M. P. Co., has been transferred from the local plant to New York. Marion Guerkin has been doing some splendid work for the American Film Mfg. Co. at La Mesa. Jean Hatheway has severed her connection with the Martin-LeRoy Company at San Diego and is now identified with the local American Film Mfg. Co.'s forces. The Selig Company maintains its menagerie in Chicago, but Manager McGee is going in for birds out here. The latest addition is a beautiful Mongolian pheasant. Every man to his fad. Jim Newman of Pathe Freres swears by his beautiful mare, Lady Maude. It is a splendid specimen of horseflesh — the envy of the entire Pathe company. Dick Spencer is scenario censor for the Bison. The Bison Company has been dividing its time between here and Bear Valley. It is always under the personal supervision of Fred Balshofer. Warren Spencer says that the Spring street lamps look brighter than ever since he got back this time. Miss Corinne Wells and Miss Chittenden are new members of the Bison stock. The former will do character leads. The Selig Company recently returned from the logging camps of Northern California where they were doing pictures based upon "The Danites." Hobart Bosworth, Tom Santschi and Betty Hart have the leads. The Ammex Motion Picture Company is busy with the erection of its new studio at National City. General Manager F. W. Randolph is doing service in two daily shifts, sleeping with one eye open. With Jesselyn Van Trump, ingenue, Pauline Busch leading woman and Handsome Jack Richardson, the American Company is doing itself proud with high-grade talent. Jim Youndeer of the Pathe bunch is growing a moustache. And Monsieur Alfred Eugene Gandolfi of the Pathe camera squad is learning to speak English by the aid of everybody around the premises. Ed. Engelhardt claims that his new daylight screen will solve the exhibitors' last problem. He hopes to have it ready for the market in sixty days. Fritz Buelke is chemical custodian at Selig's. You would hardly expect a name like that to get far away from the developing tubs. Fritz knows his business. Crystal Slide Compound S. Hoyt Deuel, 1 East Huron street, Chicago, was in Motography's office recently exhibiting a sample of his slide which he says is being adopted by the largest theaters. He claims this slide compound is in use in 327 theaters in Chicago, and claims he never received a single complaint. The idea is novel and should be a winner because it allows a theater to make its own slide at a very slight cost. Mr. Deuel says his compound is applied with an Ordinary brush and can be written on with a flint pencil which he furnishes. His compound is being used by the makers of the well known electric signs which are thrown on the sidewalk by an inside projector, and everyone knows those signs are a hard test on anything. The company guarantee the compound and offers to return the money if the compound is not as represented. The Enterprise Plan The Enterprise Manufacturing Company, 562 West Randolph street, Chicago, has inaugurated a plan which should find instant favor with the operators of projecting machines. The company maintain a free employment bureau for operators who can use the Motiograph, and finds no difficulty in obtaining good positions for competent men. Very often operators wish to change from one district of the city to another, or from here to a distant city, and the bureau is able to put them in touch with jobs on the instant. ' The "Enterprise Company extends an invitation to all moving picture machine operators to drop in at the factory and get acquainted with L. A. Woodward, who will have their names enrolled in the employment bureau if they wish as well as demonstrating to them new and special features of the latest model Motiograph. A file of Motography is kept for the convenience of visitors. The Enterprise Optical Manufacturing Company announces that it is a jobber of both the Arco Biograph and Bio carbons, and also that it is in a position to make delivery promptly to any film exchange who is doing business with the company, and will protect it as to price. The price cards with imprint will be furnished free of charge by the company. Phil Gleichman is yelling "his head off in Detroit, because his business is booming. The Casino Amusement Company, operating a dozen theaters in the nighborhood of Phil's Cadillac exchange, tried independent service in one of its amusement places. The General Film Company didn't like this and it is alleged that New York was called upon to hold the Casino in line. New York fashion, so the story goes, the Casino people were wired to reinstate their single independent place or suffer a cancellation of their eleven licenses. And in truly western fashion, the Casino folks told New York where it could go. And if the dope is correct the Casino crowd regards the 13th of the month lucky, for that is the day when G. F. Co. went into the discard. John Rock, the Vitagraph Company's western repsentative, nimrod and all-around sportsman, who has his office in Chicago and his camp in the wilds of Lake county, Illinois, had quite an adventure last month. John's home, on the desolate shores of Fox Lake, was attacked by a burly coon, who was doubtless after the Vitagraph eagle. After a desperate encounter with the marauder John succeeded in putting a bullet through him that ended his life. He now has the body of the coon stuffed and mounted in his Chicago home. Oh, sure! It was a raccoon, you know. What did you think it was ? John also successfully shot a squirrel. William N. Selig, president of the Selig Polyscope Company, Chicago, signed a lease November 6 with the Pacific Electric Company for a factory site at Santa Monica, California. The lease is for twenty years and covers two blocks of property.