The Moving Picture World (November 1907)

558 THE MOVING PICTURE WORLD. Ann Arbor, Mich., already has three five-cent moving picture shows and is going to have another. Evidently they must be considered paying investments. The latest bid for popularity in this line will be made by J. Goff & Co., who are repainting and fitting up the store room at 206 North Fourth avenue, where they will open a moving picture show next week. * * * All of Muncie's amusement houses were dark last Sunday, although it had been the intention of some of the managers to entertain the public with music, moving pictures, and other fea- tures. The fact that no shows were given was due to the fact that Mayor Guthrie advised the managers to keep the doors closed on the Sabbath. The manager of one of the moving picture shows, when he heard that Sunday programs were to be given, inquired of the Mayor regarding the case, as he wished to operate his amuse- ment house, -if any of the others were to be kept open on Sun- day. Mayor Guthrie said that he ■ did not sanction Sunday amusements. Chief of Police Van Benbow was instructed to notify the managers of the theaters to remain closed on Sun- days, and to arrest the managers if any of them opened for business. The statute under which the arrests would have been made provides that a person shall not follow his usual avocation on the Sabbath: * * » NEW CORPORATIONS. Natural Picture Machine Company, of Philadelphia; to manu- facture moving picture machines, life-motion pictures, films, etc; capital, $100,000: * * •* Motion Picture Advertising Company, Chicago, $2,000; oper- ate moving pictures; Walter K. Keefe, Edward F. Caruthers and Claude S. Humphreys. * * * Inland Amusement Company; $2,000; conduct moving picture amusement enterprises; Chicago; William C. Shattuck, G. T. Cooper and W. E. Johnston. * * * ' Chicago Cut-Rate Film Service and Renting Exchange, $2,000; to manufacture, sell and exchange moving pictures; H. E. Randall, A. Rosenthal, Harry Coon. * * * Film Exhibition Company, Chicago; capital $10,000; dealing in moving picture supplies; incorporators, Harry S. Davis, W. H. Clack, Samuel Davis. * * * ' Delaware.—National Picture Machine Company, of Philadel- phia, to manufacture, sell and deal in moving picture appliances, etc. Capital, $100,000. * * * What was formerly the bar of the Hotel Saranac, on Broad- way. New York, near Forty-second street, has been converted into" a moving picture show by a Frenchwoman. The lady from France is placing moving "colored" pictures on view, the "store show" having opened last week at the usual prices of admission, 5 and 10 cents. The rental for the portion of the former hotel taken is $18,000 yearly, which the foreigner has agreed to pay. She was formerly a member of the Phelan Stock Company, and was the first to introduce "colored" moving pictures on this side of the water. * * * New York, October 18.—Frederick Stephen, a Shinnecock In- dian, from Southampton, L. I., arraigned before Magistrate Heir- man in the Yorkville Police Court to-day, was charged with creating a disturbance r.n the Bowery. "He drank too much biograph whisky," said Patrolman Galli- gan. "What's that?" asked the magistrate. "A few drinks, and you see moving pictures. He was letting out warwhoops all along the Bowery." He was set free, with a warning to do his whooping on Long Island and renounce the "moving portrait booze." * * * From Anderson, Ind., we hear that the new Royal five-cent theater and penny arcade will be thrown open to the public on November 2. The place is owned by, the Royal Theater Company, of which W. W. McEwen is general manager, but it is not settled yet who will be the active manager. The portion of the room set aside for the penny arcade will be open at all times, and is expected to serve as a sort of waiting room for patrons of the Royal. The other part of the building will be devoted to moving pictures. * * * The moving picture craze has struck Glassboro, and old rooms that have not been rented for a long time are being fitted up as places of amusement. Swedesboro also has the craze. The moving picture fever has reached Lansingburgh. New York Amusement Company will open a moving pic exhibition in the old Powers Opera House, and the bowling 1 _ at the Phoenix Hotel are being altered to suit the purposes i a similar enterprise. * * * W. J. D. Crawford, of Canastota, N. Y., has opened a mo picture show in Fayetteville, * * * The moving picture show business is still on the increase i St John, N. B. There are now eight shows in active operatig the last being the Polymorphica, on Haymarket Square, in Tabernacle Church. In the immediate future it is under that shows will be opened on Mill street," and in Berryi Hall. Two other shows will probably be opened shortly, one] rival to the Haymarket Square show and another in the end. This will only make twelve shows. Some venture gentleman, however, will probably open the thirteenth. * * * Charleston, S. C—The-Theatorium, in King street, the and most profitable moving picture theater in this city, has sold by its proprietor, Mr. Geo. S. Bently/to Mr. J. C She an enterprising young business man of Charleston. He will tmue to keep the place up to the high mark set by its re owner. * * * . A fire scene was plunged into realistic vividness in a move] picture theater at 225 South Main street, Los Angeles, CaL,' tober 17, when a roll of film blew up in a fountain of A panic followed among the seventy-five persons in the audie in which the screens at the entrance were carried away. The performance had just begun when the film broke, was ignited. The flames were confined to the asbestos box| which the. picture machine is placed. When the blaze stail the operator closed the screen and jumped from the platfoi to the floor, escaping without injury. The theater is conducted by Thomas Warwick, who estima^ his loss at $350. The building, owned by the Brockoven Est was not damaged. * * * THE RHEOSTATOCIDE Calling the other day at' the office of Miles Bros, to learn I latest developments of the business, we entered into conve •tion with Mr. Herbert L. Miles, who gave us the gist of one] the greatest improvements in the picture business, one that T' fair to be a great saving to the nickelodeon proprietor, being nothing less than a new machine, the installing of wh does away with the rheostat and cuts down the electric " bills 50 per cent This they are prepared to prove, free of; cost to prospective customers. The rbeostatocide takes the place of the ordinary rhe in fact, as the name implies, it "kills" all need for a rhe It eliminates all buzzing, sn irritating when using lantern sli heat, the bugbear of the operator in the booth, and gives a steadier light, together with saving expensive rheostat re. and makes the alternating current not only a better light for I pictures, but a much cheaper one in every respect Mr. Miles claims that all of his efforts are for the impn ment of the moving picture business, and this he considers | greatest proposition that he can put before his customers. This rheostatocide is given free to each customer. The ditions, in a nutshell, are as follows: To every moving pid owner who has alternating current Miles Bros, will send of the rheostatocides absolutely free of cost except trans. tion charges. The conditions by which it becomes his pro. are, that the electric lighting bills for the past six months! sent to Miles Bros., with a statement of the last month's insta' tion, giving the number of candle-power of incandescent number of ordinary and flaming arcs, and any other electrical < rent in use. Then, after the installation of the rheostatocide, L bills for electric lighting are mailed to Miles Bros, each moip with a remittance for the monthly saving. After six monthsL, rheostatocide becomes the sole property of the user, without Sm ( ther payment, and the saving for all future time shall aecruejB, the possessor, the apparatus being practically indestructible. 1 The rheostatocide is the exclusive property of Miles Bj and is fully protected by patents, both here and abroad, name is also copyrighted and all rights reserved. The rheosi ddes can only be obtained through this firm, who have de one entire floor in their New York building for the produd and distribution of this unique invention, and for the purr of introducing the great saving qualities of this apparatus intend to put out but 2,500 more of their first 3,000 on this b— supplying them to the first applicants in each community the whole field is covered.