The Moving Picture World (1907)

5* fee. By refusing to issue a license until proper safe- guards are provided the authorities could bring these places to some realization of their responsibilities. * * * The New York Amusement Company and Ghas. E. Dressier Company have combined and formed a film rent- ing company, under the laws of the State of New York, to be known as The Consolidated Film Company, of New York, with offices at 143 East Twenty-third street, New York, and Brown Marx building, Birmingham, Ala. Negotiations are on foot to secure offices in other large cities. Jesse Ullman, President; George F. Bauerdorf, Treasurer, and Chas. E. Dressier, Vice-President, are the officers of the concern. * * * The .directors of the Friede Globe Tower Company, New York, announce that as subscriptions for stock have practically reached the $500,000 mark, the special bonus of a share of common with each share of preferred will be withdrawn on April 5. The Friede Globe Tower, 700 feet high, now in course of erection at Coney Island, will be the largest steel structure in the world. The stock is being sold for cash or part payment. Officers of the company say that buying their stock is not speculation, but an investment which is secured by valuable real estate. * * * Cleveland, O., sends news as follows: The new mov- ing picture machine and phonograph combined, the Amer- ican rights which Max Faetkenheuer has obtained, will be the feature in a new summer theatre which is to be opened in East Ninth street, between Euclid avenue and Superior N. E., by Edward Helm and others. The theatre is to be known as'the family theatre, and will seat 700 persons. The company which has the American rights to the machine is headed by Max Faetkenheuer and George Pettengill. They are arranging a circuit of small theatres in which the machine is to be made a feature. * * * • V On March 18th what might have proved a dangerous fire started in Odd Fellows' hall, No. 440 State street, Schenectady. The fire started in the films of the moving picture machine owned by the Bailey Electrical Treatre Company. A show was in progress when the fire started, but because of the numerous exits there was no panic The fire was quickly extinguished. The damage to the building will amount to about $500. [It is such incidents as the above that bring discredit upon the profession, and the sooner the manufacturers of machines refuse to sell an outfit, unless fully equipped "with film cases and safety devices, the better.— Ed.] * * * The continued popularity of moving pictures, which are a feature of almost every vaudeville bill in the coun-. try, is illustrated by a story which Manager Percy Wil- liams, of the Orpheum. Theatre, New York, tells orii him- THfe MOVlNfr PtCTUkE WOfctft self. One week, when Mr. Williams had fairly outdont himself in preparing the Orpheum bill, and every act was a big headliner, many of the salaries running into four figures, he met a friend of his on the street. The friend greeted the manager and said: "I was over to see jour show the other night, Mr. Williams, and I think that it was about the best show I ever saw." Mr. Williams thanked him, and as a matter of curiosity asked him what act he liked best. The friend answered, "I think those moving pictures were about the best I ever saw." Articles of incorporation have been filed with the register of deeds of this county and in the office of the secretary of state, at Madison, by the Twin City Amuse- ment Company, of Menasha. The capital stock of the I company is $5,000, divided into 500 shares at $10 each, and the incorporators are G. A.,Loescher, J. A. Olmstead and Eugene Robbins. Albany.—The Garden Amusement Company of New York was recently incorporated with a capital of $100,000 to own, lease and manage theatres, to produce operas, plays and vaudeville. The directors are: Henry Rem- hardt, S. B. Heine, Herman Auerbauch and Edward E Bendit ' f The Nashville (Tenn.) Amusement Company is incor- porated. This concern will run moving picture parlors, The capital stock is $2,000 and the incorporators are: W. J. Williams, Anthony Sudekum, Henry Sudekum, J. M. Currey and Paul W. Hoggins. Marshal P. Wilder appeared on the 20th inst., at the Waldorf-Astoria, New York, as a lecturer on foreign travel. The subject of his lecture was Japan, the first of a series he is to give on his recent trip around the world. Mr. Wilder took in everything in Japan, from street signs to geishas. He presented them in many beautiful pictures, moving and otherwise. Many of the pictures, which had been colored by Kimbei, Japan's greatest col- orist, excited general admiration from his audience. One of the pictures was a snapshot of the Mikado as he appeared at a review. It is against the law to take a picture of the Emperor, but Mr. Wilder got a bzfck view, as the Emperor sat on his horse, showing him On a ver; ill-shapen nag in a very ill-fitting uniform, the latter being due, Mr. Wilder explained, to the fact that the suit had to be made by guesswork, the Emperor's person being too august to be touched by tailors. Mr. Wilder said that he had the same feeling against being touched by tailors, but it did not have the same effect. Mr. Wilder did little else but explain the pictures, which were sufficient to entertain the audience. Moving pictures showing geisha girls dancing, Japanese wresding and some of the Mikado's soldiers were part of the enter- tainment. Mr. Wilder is.to give a.lecture on China next