Motography (Apr-Dec 1911)

December, 1911. MOTOGRAPHY 293 and others, and will erect a new moving picture theater. A new moving picture theater will be erected at West Springfield by Bernard Radding and others. MICHIGAN. E. J. Bregger has converted the Crystal Falls Opera House of Crystal Falls into one of the prettiest and most up-to-date theaters in the Upper Peninsula. The walls are handsomely decorated with hand-painted Switzerland scenery. It is furnished with the latest indirect lighting system which aids greatly to the comfort and pleasure of its patrons. The house is used for large dancing parties, roller skating and one night shows and is devoted to moving pictures when not otherwise occupied, thus making his place of amusement a very popular as well as a very profitable one. The Family moving picture theater of Detroit has been purchased by A. A. Fassett, of Detroit, who has reopened it. The New Rex theater at Battle Creek has been opened under the same management as the Queen theater. The Royal motion picture theater of Ishpeming has been re-opened under the management of Charles Skiff. Plans have been completed for a new $50,000 theater to be erected at Chene and Catherine streets, Detroit, by C. H. Crane, and the same will be operated as a 10-cent vaudeville and picture house. MINNESOTA. A moving picture theater will be erected at Pipestone by A. Berkeley. The Bell theater at Alden has been purchased by H. Hazel and L. Comstock who have changed the name to the Electric. A moving picture theater will be conducted on the first floor of the Mangakau building at Breckenridge by Bert Smith. The moving picture theater at Pine City, formerly owned bv Fred Norton, has been purchased bv J. G. Hevwood and J. M. Collins. H. H. Foles will open a moving picture theater at International Falls. The Star theater at Two Harbors has been leased by Murphy Bros., who will conduct a moving picture house. W. H. Hohm will open a moving picture theater in the Jonas building, Roseau. A moving picture theater will be erected at Kasson by K. L. Niles and Ted Dyer, who will operate the same. H. E. Donald and B. A. Morton will open a moving picture theater at Canton. E. Laborwick has been granted permission to erect a moving picture theater on Selby avenue, between Chatsworth and Oxford avenues, St. Paul. The Pastime is the name of a new moving picture theater conducted at 109 South Front street, Mankato, by Don V. Daigneau. Roy Darnell, formerly of Groton, S. D., will erect a moving picture theater at Shakopee. The Gem motion picture theater at Pipestone has been purchased by M. H. Carey, of Madison, S. D. W. B. Bosworth will open a moving picture theater at Ada. J. L. Latham will open a moving picture theater, The Bijou, at Lake street and Second avenue, Chisholm. The Princess Theater Company of St. Cloud has been incorporated with a capital stock of $25,000 for the purpose of operating a chain of moving picture theaters. The incorporators are Frank E. Nemeck, president ; Fred Nemeck, vicepresident ; L. P. Haarman, secretary and treasurer. The Zumbro Falls Company will erect a moving picture theater at Zumbro Falls. The Sheldon Memorial Auditorium, the municipal show house of Red Wing, will be devoted to moving pictures on all nights when not otherwise occupied, under the direction of Manager W. A. Scott. Knute J. Knutson will erect a new moving picture theater at Stillwater. The Starland Amusement Company of Winnipeg has taken over the Colonial theater, a moving picture and vaudeville house at Wabash and Eighth streets, St. Paul. Thirty thousand dollars will be spent in remodeling the house. The company, of which Paul Le Marquand is president, plans to erect one or two houses in Minneapolis, which will eclipse the style and proportions of any theater of the class now in the northwest. The company has fourteen houses in Canada between Port Arthur and Vancouver, and it is intended to start its circuit in the states with houses in Minneapolis, St. Paul and Duluth. The American is the name of a new moving picture theater to be opened at 14-16 East Lake street, Minneapolis. Nell G. Caward has purchased the moving picture theater formerly operated at Owatonna by Byron H. Smith. The Family theater of Red Wing, formerly owned and conducted by J. J. Walsh, has been purchased by Messrs. Smith and Van Duzee of Minneapolis, who will conduct the same. A moving picture theater will be opened at Little Falls by George Lenz, of St. Paul. The Pipestone Ridome Company will erect a moving picture theater at Hardwick. A deal has been consummated whereby H. A. Hamilton becomes the sole proprietor of the Scenic moving picture theater at Detroit, having purchased the interest of his partner, Harry D. Blanding. The scenic is one of the most modern moving picture theaters in the Northwest, and for sanitation and comfort, is not excelled by the more pretentious houses of the larger cities. A moving picture theater is being erected at Virginia by R. A. McLean at a cost of $20,000. MISSOURI. George B. Hanson will erect a moving picture theater at 1508 Spruce street, Kansas City, at a cost of $4,000. The Family theater is the latest addition to Nevada's list of moving picture houses. R. T. Swofford will erect a moving picture theater and store at 2515 Independence boulevard, Kansas City, at a cost of $11,000. The St. Louis Film & Supply Company, with offices in the Leathe building, St. Louis, has been organized b* H. R. Mason, who is well known in the motion picture field. The Star moving picture theater at Pierre City has been purchased by Ray and George Mullen. The Nickel theater at Nevada, formerly operated by George C. Baldwin, has been purchased by C. M. Patee, who originally owned it. The Garden Theater Company of Kansas City has been incorporated with a capital stock of $20,000 by H. M. Churchill, M. A. Graham, E. P. Church and others. The Orpheum Theater Beautiful is a handsome new moving picture theater at the corner of Fifth and Edmons streets, St. Joseph, which will be under the supervision of Norman E. Field of Chicago, who is to be resident manager. A $5,000 pipe organ has been installed. The house is strictly fireproof and one of the handsomest of its kind in the country. The entertainment offered will be strictly first-class and will consist of moving pictures and illustrated songs. The Vaudeville Theater Company of St. Louis has been granted permission to erect two moving picture theaters, each to cost $30,000. One will be at 2312 South Grand avenue, and the other at 2806 North Vandeventer avenue. F. J. Duvall and Dr. E. M. Bartlett will conduct a moving picture theater at Clarksville. A moving picture theater is being erected at 3700 E. Twenty-second street, Kansas City, by John Rhode, at a cost of $5,000. The Coney Island moving picture theater, corner Broadway and Marietta street, Excelsior Springs, conducted by H. C. Pfeiffer, has been purchased by W. H. Clark and son, who will continue the high standard maintained by this house — the only five-cent house .-in the place. Mr. Pfeiffer has about completed arrangements for the organization of a company to establish a plant in this city for the manufacture of moving picture films. The St. Louis Film and Supply company of St. Louis has been incorporated, with a capital stock of $2,000, by H. R. Mason, Henry E. Bert and Fred Schwartz. Manager Myers^of the Luella theater, Chillicothe, has installed two new moving picture machines and the house will be devoted to pictures on nights not occupied with other attractions. A moving picture theater was recently opened at Lathrop by G. W. Giffort. The New Lyric theater at Chillicothe has been reopened under the management of L. Carlton, owner. Mr. Carlton had leased the theater to other parties, but this project proving unprofitable he will assume the management of it himself. A permit has been granted the Vaudeville Theater company, St. Louis, for the erection of a moving picture theater at 818 North King's Highway, which will cost $30,000. The building is to be of brick and concrete fireproof construction and the interior will be patterned on Japanese lines. The Radium Screen company of Denver has leased a building at 105 Main street, St. Louis, where it will manufacture screens for theaters and moving picture houses, and keep a line of moving picture sundries. E. R. Anderson is president of the company. The Liberty Motion Picture Manufacturing company of Kansas City, has been incorporated with a capital stock ot