Show World (July 1909)

26 THE SHOW WORLD on rip Steel Frame THEATRE CHAIRS ilutely Non-Breakable -^Suitable for small tt _ship immediately. Second Hand Chairs. Also Seating for Out-of-Door Steel Furniture Co. Rapids, Mich. Boston Office, 224 Con¬ gress St., Boston, Mass.; Monadnock Bldg., San FILM RENEWING Our Process the Only One That Renews Films as well as Cleans them. We not only put your old films in the Money Making Class but give you a Good Variety of Tints. Write today for Rates American Film Renewing Co. FIRMENICH BLDG.,_ CHICAGO AMONG THE DENIZENS OF OLD MELODY LANE. NEW YORK, June 29.—A journey through ,old tin pan alley this morn¬ ing reminds one of Goldsmith’s “De¬ serted Village.” All the music pub¬ lishers have departed further up town. Leo Feist, the Whitmarks, F. H. Hav- iland, are located in Thirty-seventh street, on or near Broadway; Thirty- eighth street contains Jos. Stearn and and Jerome Remick; Ted Snyder is around the corner from the Imperial hotel at Thirty-second and Broadway, while the corner of Thirty-ninth and Broadway contains the Shapiro Music Company and the latest recruit to the ranks, the Laemmle Music Company of Chicago, of which the ubiquitous Carl Laemmle of film, picture and now music fame, is the president. The music publishers; profiting by past experience, have been holding back all publications until the coming of the new copyright law, which goes into effect July 1st. A visit to all the offices reveals the same state of af¬ fairs, and I am told on every hand: “Don’t fail to come in next week; we have a number of new things that we desire to get before the public through the medium of the Show World. Here is a little inside information regarding the fight that was made on the “Canned Music people,” who had been profiting by the brains of the authors and music publishers for these many years. Naturally the Columbia, Edison, Victor and other companies were very loath to give up a good thing, and put up a very strenuous fight before the ways and means com¬ mittee before an agreement was finally reached. On the royalty price to be paid. The music publishers finally won out, and they will receive in the future 2 cents per record royalty on all copyrighted music. Another mat¬ ter that delayed the final passage of the. copyright law was the fight of the National Press Association regarding copyright portraits. The newspaper people, with their usual acumen, handed the photographers a lemon, and the present copyright law contains a clause that in the event of a news¬ paper using a copyrighted picture, without due credit, the fine for such omission cannot be less than $50 and not more than $200. The newspaper motto seems to be, “We Never Sleep.” —NELLIE REVELL. NEXT ISSUE For Release Saturday July 3rd The Prince and the Actor NOTICE TO EXHIBITORS:—Ask Ufa l GREAT NORTHERN FILM COMPANY f NO ROtSH FtLM COMPAMF. COPENHAGEN) 7 EA5T 14T? 5T, NEW YORK. Awarded First Prize; Cinematograph Exhibition at Hamburg, 1908 MOVING PICTURE NEWS FROM N EW Y ORK TOWN Miles Predicts Successful Meet for F.S.A. Patents Company Will Not Reduce Price of Film. NEW YORK, June 39.—The mov¬ ing picture situation, like all other amusements, is more or less in the doldrum of summer. The following theaters are playing their usual bills: Dewey, Gotham, Unique, Fourteenth Street, Keith & Proctor’s, Fourtenth, Twenty-third, Fifty-eighth, One Hun¬ dred Twenty-fifth street. Comedy, Family, Blaney’s, Hurtig & Seamon’s, and the Majestic. At the Dewey the¬ ater, they have been showing this week pictures of the Ketchell-Jack O’Brien fight in Philadelphia. The vaudeville bills at these various the- ters show a marked tendency towards better acts. The majority of these places of amusement place from six to eight acts. Herbert Miles, secretary of the Film association, states that he anticipates a great success for the coming meet¬ ing that is to be held at Atlantic City this' month, July 14, 15 and 16. There will be a number of matters taken up besides the election of a new pres¬ ident and vice-president, in place of Messrs. Swanson and Laemmle, who have become affiliated with the inter¬ national Projecting and Producing Company. From advices received from up the state, regarding a combi¬ nation that has been made between the exchanges in that section, it will be a matter {or decision on the part of the association whether they can endorse this state of affairs or not. It looks very much as if the manufac¬ turers would have an entirely new state of affairs to cope with after the meeting of the association. . McDonald Denies Rumor. During the past week a rumor has been circulated to the effect that the Motion Picture Patents Company would reduce the price of film to 9 cents during the hot months, July and August. A call on Dwight McDon¬ ald, Secretary of the Patents Com¬ pany, shows that this is only another of the idle rumors that are constantly circulated around this neck of the woods. Mr. McDonald said that the subject had never been thought of, and that no mention of it had ever been made at any meeting of the Patents company. He stated that a meeting will be held on next Thurs¬ day, and as far as he knows, nothing but routine matters will come up. He also said that Charles Urban of the Eclipse Film Company, of London, England, was a caller at their office, but that nothing was said of the col¬ ored photography scheme said to be owned and controlled by Mr. Urban. Mr. Urban is, at the present time, in Chicago and will make a tour of the country before returning to Europe. Frank L. Dyer, president of the Pat¬ ents company, will sail for Europe immediately after next Thursday’s meeting. Collier on Vacation. John Collier, secretary of the board of censorship for moving pictures has started on his vacation in the moun¬ tains of Georgia. Before leaving, Mr. Collier stated that the idea of a national censor board was rapidly tak¬ ing shape, and that at. the present time, he had every reason to believe that plans would be perfected before the fall season. Mr. Collier said he, had received letters from the follow¬ ing cities, asking him to send them the literature and any information he could impart regarding the New York censorship: Cincinnati, New Orleans, San Francisco, Philadelphia, Grand Rapids and Boston. Mr. Collier has replied to all these places, telling them that the ideas of the New York censor board were very comprehensive. He sent them all the literature asked for, and suggested that they make haste slowly, that he believed, with the na¬ tionalization, that there would be need for auxiliary boards in the various cities, whose duties would be ’ “the looking after the general welfare of the public,” regarding fire laws, san¬ itation, etc. Mr. Collier expects to be back in the city about the 1st of August, and he will at once resume operations. Pictorial Education. The moving picture is making itself felt more as an educational force than any other discovery of the pres¬ ent century. Dr. Maxwell, superin¬ tendent of public schools, and Albert Shells, district superintendent, two of the best posted men on the education of the young in this country, are en¬ - thusiastic on the subject of mcj pictures in the public schools, vious to . the closing of the sch they arranged four or five model; ture exhibitions, which were rece with marked enthusiasm. At the pres¬ ent time the public school children^ treated to lectures of . which sterei con slides are-largely used. It i: opinion of both Dr. Maxwell Mr. Shields that these will be quickly replaced by moving pictures. World Tour Pictures. The world’s tours, arranged by the New York American, for which t|e voting contest closes today, will-J the means of bringing forward* moving pictures as an educatiw force, in a manner that will appeal! the parents of every child in the cd try. It is the intention of Bradfl Merrill, treasurer of the Star Pubfl ing Company, which publishes Hearst syndicate of papers, to have pictures taken of the boys and girls as they proceed from country to c<] trv in their journey around the wc They will also be expected to nS records of their impressions of different sights they see in their j< ney, the impressions created on their minds by the different national^™ whose countries they pass throa These records they will make as tj proceed on their journey, and vM the impressions are vivid in tfl minds. At the opening of the pifl schools in the fall arrangements j be made by Mr. Merrill for the Ana can to have these records and picti seen and heard in every school, fl lege and university throughout I land. The latest picture oroduced by the New York Motion Picture Company is entitled “A True Indian.” It can not be recommended too highly to the patrons of the moving picture t® afprs. G. W. Bitzer. the man who the Biograph famous, is still dofl business at the old stand. The qua of the work turned out by Mr. Bil calls for universal admiration. ? Bitzer is one of the early moving ture operators who has not only ll up to the times, but has kept in advance of them. Edward Porter, who is now gen] manager of the picture department the Edison Manufacturing Compl has been introducing a number oftl elties and improvements in the Edis_ studio, which, is situated near Bro® Park, this city. Mr. Porter is tie father of some of the greatest movi® pictures ever produced. Ad Kessel, of the Empire Company, is an enthusiastic' sa._ and every evening after he . clJ as the man in the overalls he beta] himself to Twenty-third street, River, where he is met by one of crew of the yacht “Harriet,” and gi for a' sail down the bay and out the bosom of the broad Atlantic. ' Kessel has one of the most shad boats in all the Jamaica Bay fleet. L Invalg Oes of the Great North* Film Company is another amphibioM member of the craft. Mr. Oeffl specialty goes towards that made i- mous by Miss Annette KellermaS the diving Venus, and he is said ® present fully as fine an appearanM dressed in a bathing suit as the divi® Annette. The forthcoming meeting at Atlaf tic City will be graced by the p«*j ence of Captain Rock of the Vita- graph Company, the nestor of the moving picture business; the expr® sion “solid as a rock” was first us® Pacific Coast Amusement Company Owning and Operating 30 Firsi-Class Vaudeville Theatres, East, Northwest and West. WANTED acts of all kinds deliver the goods. at all times first -class that can SOLE BOOKING AGENTS: PAUL G0UDR0N.67 South Clark Street, Chicago CHRIS 0. BROWN, 1358 Broadway, Suite 8-9-10, New York City ARCHIE LEVY, American Theatre Building, San Francisco, Cal. H. L. LEAVITT, Sullivan & Considine Building, Seattle. Wash. ANTI-TRUST FILM CO. 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