Moving Picture News (Jan-Jun 1913)

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THE MOVING PICTURE NEWS 29 OPERATORS' CHART By Ralph Knaster MOVING PICTURE MACHINE OPERATORS' UNION OF GREATER NEW YORK, INC., LOCAL No. 1 President — Robert Goldblatt. Vice-President — James Daisie. Secretary-Treasurer — Robert Levy. Recording Secretary — John Rickards. Sergeant-at-Arms — Ed. Spinola. Business Representative — Ralph Knaster Assistant Business Representative — John Rickards. Telephone — Stuyvesant 619 Office— 133 Third Avenue. The Moving Picture Machine Operators' Union of Greater New York will hold their regular meeting Monday, May 19, 1913, at Teutonia Hall, 66 Essex street, New York. At this meeting the body will take up the election of delegates to Seattle, Washington, where the convention of the I. A. T. S. E. will take place. For the benefit of those operators wishing to join the union at the present initiation fee, there will be two open meetings. The first meeting will take place June 9 and the second on June 23, 1913. The moving picture machine operators of Local No. 1 have been organized since last July and up to the present met with great success. The former mother local has failed to accomplish anything in regard to the present situation in this city, and it is very near one year since the president of the I. A. T. S. "E. had predicted that Local No. 35 would be able to meet with t'-e situation and that Local No. 35 would have the largest operators' union in the country. Then came the organizing of M. P. M. O. U. Xo. 1 after all methods of receiving what was really due them had failed. Local Xo. 35 formed a new branch called a department. ROBERT LEVY Secretary of M. P. M. O. U. of Greater New York, Local No. 1, and chief projectionist and mechanic for the Eclair Film Co., of New York City. What has been done in this city to relieve the situation or to better the conditions since last year? Local No. 1, which was formerly the auxiliary of Local No. 35, demand something in consideration of five' years' taxation in the I. A. T. S. E. Local No. 1 have their own path cleared and their plans all laid out for future work, and should they not get justice this year then the well-trained men will march ahead on their route of battle and continue until justice is served. There is an old saying, and that is, There is more than one way to skin a rabbit, and many ways to bring down a lion. Local No. 1, only in existence ten months, is able to send two men to a convention which will cost nearly $1,00&. Let us change the subject. How do you like to go on a moonlight excursion? Well, the boys of Local No. 1 are going to have one up the Hudson very shortly. Preparations are under way for a great time, and talk about your cabarets; well, there will be some show. The boys will enjoy the excursion with their families and eat a good midnight supper and a bully breakfast on board. Some class to the Moving Picture Machine Operators' Union of Greater New York, Local No. 1. RALPH KNASTER, Bus. Rep. Office, 133 Third avenue, near Fourteenth street. Motiograph Machine at Naval Prison Mr. Bernard M. Corbett, of the Enterprise Optical Mfg. Company, of Chicago, reports the sale and installation of a 1913 Model Motiograph equipped with the latest improved motor-drive, at the United States Naval Prison at Portsmouth, N. H., through the R. D. Marson Moving Picture Company, of Boston. The naval prison at Portsmouth is a historic institution and had confined within its walls the Spanish sailors and Admiral Cervera, who were taken as prisoners at the battle of Santiago during the Spanish War in 1898. The entertainments will be given the prisoners once each week, and will be in charge of Lieutenant Clapp of the U. S. M. C. Several other Motiograph sales are reported by Mr. Corbett, including the new Silvey Theatre at Edgerstown, Mass., which installed a combination Motiograph picture machine and double dissolving stereopticon outfit, and another similar equipment in the new Natick Theatre at Natick, Mass., through the Boston branch of the General Film Company. The Natick Theatre has just been completed and is one of the handsomest pictureplay houses in the country, seating 850 persons, and is owned and controlled by Messrs. Harris & Beuhler. Mr. H. N. Yost is the manager. Alton, 111. — W. L. Hester has leased the Grand Opera House at Ida Grove and will open up a moving picture show. Fairmont, Minn. — Nicholas & Hay will erect a moving picture theatre. Philadelphia, Pa. — J. A. Bader has been awarded the contract for a theatre to be built at 2924 Richmond street for William E. Butler. William H. Hoffman, architect. Henry, 111. — H. C. Hatcher is assisting Milo Phares in starting his new picture theatre in Henry. Nashville, Tenn. — The Empress will be the name of the new picture show which will be opened at the corner of Woodland and Twelfth streets in East Nashville, early this week. C. W. Beasley and F. E. Draper, managers. Williston, N. D. — A new theatre is being considered by Manager McGinnis. Hopkinton, la. — H. A. Phillipp, proprietor of the Hotel Phillipp, has announced that he will build an opera house here., Milwaukee, Wis. — Architect Louis Esser is drawing plans for the remodeling of the Davidson theatre annex to be made into a moving picture house, to cost $40,000. St. Louis, Mo. — A dramatic theatre is planned by Davis O'Neil, George S. Johns, and others. Philadelphia, Pa. — Thomas W. Lamb is preparing for the remodeling of the Broad street and Chestnut street theatres and the Grand Opera House. Mound City, Mo. — R. S. Keeves is completing plans for converting his business house into an opera house. Glens Falls, N. Y. — The Dreamland theatre in the Ormsby block will be opened to the public today. Philadelphia, Pa. — Mahlon H. Dickinson is preparing plans for a vaudeville theatre. ON CUPID'S HIGHWAY Nestor Release May 86th.