The Moving Picture World (Apr-Jun 1913)

3»6 THE MOVING PICTURE WORLD siderable amount of ground during his two weeks' stay and returned with quite a number of space reservations for some of the largest and best English tirms in the trade. The British trade received him very cordially and he succeeded in stirring up a lively interest in the New York Exposition to such an extent that a good number of the English brothers have made up their minds to be in New York when the Exposition begins next July. The idea of sending Mr. Samuels over there was a very good one. Mr. Rich G. Holloman, President of the Eden Mussee, New York, was the man who made the suggestion, and it was immediately acted upon by the Exposition Committee. Mr. Samuels was invited to be guest of the Exhibitors Association of Great Britain and Ireland at their first annual banquet held during exposition week in London. At that time he was called upon to address the British association, and he took advantage of the opportunity to tell those present of the work and aspirations of the Motion Picture Exhibitors' League of America. He gave them a good first hand idea of the general status of the exhibiting branch of the business in America and pointed out various improvements that could be made, in which both nations had a common interest, if there could be some definite co-operation and plan of action between the exhibitors of Great Britain and America. He made it known that one of the objects of his trip was to establish co-operative relations between the American and British exhibitors, and his statement met with a hearty response. Mr. Samuels is now back at his desk at the offices of the M. P. E. L. of A. Exposition Committee in the German Savings Bank Building, Fourth Ave, and Fourteenth Street, New York. He was agreeably surprised to find that during his absence many more space reservations had been made by prominent firms in the trade for exhibits at the New York Exposition. * * * One of the advertising schemes of the Exposition Committee is the distribution of large quantities of stickers calling attention to the Exposition, and giving the time and place. These are being sent to the many firms that have taken floor space with the request that they stick one on each and every letter they send out to renters, exhibitors and others in the trade. This scheme not only helps the exposition but it helps the man who sends the letter, by bringing more people to see his exhibit. * * * The H. VV. Johns-Manville Company, manufacturers of portable and permanent asbestos operating rooms, has contracted for a space on the main floor. Besides this that company has decided to install one of its operating rooms in each of the "model theaters" on the mezzanine floor. * * * The Day and Night Screen Co., of 192 Broadway, through its Capt. A. M. Baber, has taken space in which it will exhibit its screen in daylight. This company has also arranged to have a screen installed in one of the model theaters on the mezzanine floor. * * * Alex A. Wall, National vice-president from Alabama comes in with a request for more literature and more stickers. The exhibitors down South are coming north in a body to attend the big show. * •* . * Western and Southern picture men have a fine alibi for being in New York next July. Incidentally a little whirl at Coney Island may be arranged and perhaps a jaunt around to the local moving picture studios, and other points of interest. * * * Even the suffragettes are bidding for space. They want one of the model theaters for a while each day for expostulating purposes. The application is under advisement, but it looks like "nothing didding." PUTS THE PICTURE THEATER ON THE LIST. Assemblyman Cuvillier has introduced a bill at Albany, N. Y., which includes "any kinetoscope or moving picture performance" in the list of entertainments to be licensed. The bill is an amendment to sections 51 and 1472 of the Charter of Greater New York, which has not heretofore specifically named motion picture shows. At present such institutions are licensed as "common shows.", MISS LAURA SAWYER. Miss Laura Sawyer, leading lady in the Edison company, who, as might be readily surmised by the accompanying photograph, is commonly referred to by her intimates as "Dolly Dimples," is as charming a young woman as she is a talented actress, and one whose friends in and out of the professions are legion. Into the four years she spent before the footlights — two of which as understudy to Ada' Rehan in Shakespearean roles — and the four years she has been with the Edison company in Cuba, Bermuda, the great Northwest and California, have been crowded experiences that seldom fall to the lot of so young a woman, and covering which a volume of interesting memoirs might be written. Miss Sawyer is now in Long Beach, Cal., where, under the personal direction of J. Searle Dawley, she is doing some of the best work of her career. Recent productions of the Edison company in which her finished work has received the commendation of the press and public alike are "Unselfish Love," Marguerite in "Faust," "The Day That Is Dead," "Lead, Kindly Light," "A Japanese Tea Party," "For the Cause of the South," "The Cliff Dweller's Romance," "'Ostler Joe," "The Crusader" and "The Relief of Lucknow." JUVENILE FILM CONSPIRATORS NOW! No, it isn't Laemmle and Powers. General and Kinetograph. This faction and that faction. This producer and that producer. Just kids! This atmosphere of meeting and conference — this general air of conspiracy — that has been so marked in the film business of late, has "gotten to" the juvenile film people. At last advices, the Thanhouser Kid and Leland Benham were seen conspiring (much after the fashion of their film-business elders') to oust an unpopular school mistress who had succeeded a popular one. And no conspiring film magnate ever worked more cleverly than they! Thanhouser releases the result, entitled "The Children's Conspiracy," on Sunday, April 20th. The fog on the day of Lord Wolseley's military funeral cost London cameramen £30,000, for they only secured a few uninteresting lengths. Hundreds of pounds were paid by one firm alone for stands — that for a single operator over St. Paul's costing 50 guineas. SMITH'S OPERA HOUSE, GENEVA, N. Y., UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT. Jerome Cohen has taken clarge of the above place and through Mr. Hallberg, "The Economizer Man," is installing a Simplex projecting machine, with Hallberg A. C. Economizer. A Simplex machine, with Hallberg Economizer, is also being installed at the new Clarendon Theater, 1105 Flatbush Avenue, Brooklyn, N. Y., together with a full line of supplies purchased through J. H. Hallberg. This is a very line, up-to-date theater, which will be run only with highclass pictures. Mr. Hallberg also reports the sale of two Power's No. 6-A machines complete for use in Panama.