Moving Picture News (Jan-Jun 1913)

THE MOVING PICTURE NEWS WILLIAM HILKEMEIER Chairman Entertainment Committee. William Hilkemeier, Chairman of Entertainment Committee, Says: That the preliminary steps of the entertainment committee of the Third Annual Convention of the Motion Picture Exhibitors League of America to be held in this city July 7th to 12th is well on its way. We are working in co-operation with the various manufacturers and tradesmen in arranging a very extensive program, consisting of moonlight excursions, sight-seeing in the Great White W ay, a trip to Hempstead Plains with the airmen who have extended an invitation to all for a trip .through the clouds, a day at the studio and a trip to dear old Coney Island. Messrs. Kessell and Bauman of the famous Kay-Bee Film have placed at the committee's disposal their private yachts for a trip to West Point and Fort Lee. The ladies' committee will be composed of the leading picture players who will take charge of the visiting delegates' wives and friends during the entire week, and a general good time is assured to all. "THE DREAD OF DOOM" A Silhouette of Sorrow Sometimes we read a book, see a play or a picture that, wedging into a corner of our brains, its recollection echoes through the memory cells with haunting persistence. Such is the strangely ln-pnotic influence on even the most unreceptive intelligence of "The Dread of Doom." the new Itala three-reel feature film. The writer is no stranger to the unusual and his working days and nights have been spent in avoiding the commonplace, in peering into strange bywa}_s of experience. But even upon his satiated senses the potent motives of the "Doom" picture thrilled and ever widened upon his consciousness, to recur again and again even in moments of activity, fleeting fugitives of fancy. Behind the dramatic framework of the tragedy there is a silhouette of sorrow which stands out grim and ghastly against the sheen of the sable night. There is a force that projects one into the simulated emotions of the actors; in sympathy one can cry with the bereaved, suffer with the man of malediction. Dissection of feeling is a matter for analytical minds, only, and to enter upon the almost occult mesmerism of these gripping events would be playing with vocabular THE DREAD OF DOOM Jtala Feature. fire in which there would be more obscuring smoke than illuminating flame. Sufficient be it to say that this phototragedy is a subject of importance too deep to be praised in terms of the ordinary nomenclature. It is a film whose greatness is intrinsic, inherent. It produces an effect that lingers and impresses with the conviction that these actors have penetrated to the regions of the oversoul, have transcended mere stagecraft. No review of this film could be written without mention of the marvelous acting of Ermete Zacconi, whose sobriquet, "the Mansfield of Italy," will not cause the real Richard to writhe in his grave at the comparison. Have you seen men die? Madisonville. Tex. — Messrs. Carter & Glover have leased the Detroit Building, and are fixing it up for a moving picture show. Beaumont, Tex. — A moving picture theatre will be erected here, headed by J. K. Grist. Cost. $20,000. F. W. Steinmann has drawn the plans. Thompson Falls — Peter Carter, moving picture man of Plains, will open up a picture theatre here. SHEP THE HERO Majestic Release May 20th.