Show World (July 1910)

12 THE SHOW WORLD July 23, 191®, RATIFIED! ENDORSED! AND RECOMMENDED AT NIAGARA FALLS, in convention assembled, the National Independent Moving Picture Alliance went on record as being heartily in accord with all the plans, purposes and policies of the Sales Company. , The original Chicago agreement was UNANIMOUSLY RATIFIED, thus insuring the exhibitor a backing that is thoroughly solid and harmonious, with every vestige of factional feeling entirely eradicated. COOPERATION is the keynote of the Independent forces today, and all of its combined strength will be concentrated toward one great object—the improve¬ ment of the now excellent quality of its combined program. We invite exhibitors to write us on any matter in which a tribunal of manu¬ facturers and exchange men can be of any service. We want to help you to a better enjoyment and appreciation of our big program; look it over. (Eclair Every Monday - {Imp LYankee Every Thursday {f“" D ’ A,t Bison [Bison Every Tuesday - [Powers Every Friday - Defender Uhanhouser Lux Thanhouser Every Wednesday rAmbrosio Atlas Champion Nestor rColumbia Every Saturday Dreat Northern 'Powers DEFENDER will change to Saturday beginning August 6th Motion Picture Distributing & Sales Co. Ill East 14th Street, - - NEW YORK CITY SALES CO. RELEASES. “Irony of Fate” released by Imp, Aug. 1st. An author whose sole and only thought is his books asks his young and beautiful wife to entertain a friend of his who has come to visit them. After a lapse of a couple of weeks the wife and friend realize that they are falling in love with each other and the friend thereupon de¬ cides to leave, but the husband not guessing the cause presses him to stav. It haooens that the friend and wife meet in the library and he tells her of his love and that he must leave her home. The husband coming upon them immediately accuses his wife of infidelity and gets into such a rage that he faints. The doctor is called in and restores him. The wife re¬ entering the bedroom has a fierce argument with the husband which causes his death. The doctor again being called assures her that it was caused by a sunstroke. The friend feeling that he was in a mq^sure the cause of the author’s death resolves to go west and be heard of ho more and writes and tells the wife so. “Yankeeanna,” released by Imp, Aug. 4th. There are national troubles which arise between the countries of Yankeeanna and Revolutio. The president of Revolutio sends his Charge D’Affairs to the secretary of Yankeeanna to endeavor to straighten out the differences. On the arrival of the Charge D’Affairs in Yanke.e- anna he discovers an injured news¬ boy on the street—an auto passing along in which is the secretary’s daughter, stops and takes the boy to the hospital. It is love at first sight and the Charge D’Affairs de¬ cides to call off all negotiations for the time being. The Charge D’Af¬ fairs and the girl declare their love for one another as ' do also two of his friends to two of her friends, and while Revolutio is busy preparing for war, the three couples are busy get¬ ting married. Yankeeanna accepts the challenge of war and immediately decides to move upon their country b.ut in a different manner than is ex¬ pected by Revolutio as they enter with a flag of truce and ask the blessing of the president of Revolutio upon the international marriages which is cheerfully given and all dif¬ ferences settled. DEMAND FOR ATTRACTIONS. There is a great demand for attrac¬ tions in the one-night stands and even on the Stair & Havlin time, where dates have been tendered to Chicago managers recently for desirable time in September. It is said that a five- people show has been booked into some of the Stair & Havlin towns owing to the great demand for at¬ tractions. W. O. Tarkington, general agent of the Dode Fiske show, was in Chicago this week. INDEPENDENT MEN REACH AGREEMENT Manufacturers and Renters Arrange Basis Meet in Niagara Falls and 1 of Operation Niagara Falls, July 17.—The Inde¬ pendent film men left here today, after a harmonious meeting $t the Imperial hotel, the manufacturers and renters, to a man, expressing their gratification at the situation, and the confident prediction that the fall busi¬ ness looked rosy for the Independ¬ ents. Charles O. Baumann, general man¬ ager of the Motion Picture Distribut¬ ing & Sales Company, stated that the charter had not yet been returned, and that contracts which were being prepared would not be in readiness for a few days. R. G. Bachman, president of the National Independent Moving Pic¬ ture Alliance, made an address ex¬ pressing his satisfaction, personally, at the happy outlook, and stating, offi¬ cially, that the members of the Alli¬ ance were backing the Sales Com¬ pany in every way. McMahon is Pleased. I. W. McMahon, of the Cincinnati Film Exchange, said that he was much pleased with the results ac¬ complished, but did not approve of new exchanges being admitted, if such was the intention. Under the Sales Company agreement the manufactur¬ ers will not sell to exchanges not members of the Alliance for less than fifteen cents a foot. After some dis¬ cussion it was agreed to allow the terms of initiation to remain in force until August 15, after which the by¬ laws will be amended. It developed that the manufactur¬ ers were not imbued with the ‘get- rich-quick idea, by establishing a flood of exchanges upon which to un¬ load their film. The Sales Company is composed of conservative men who are looking to the future, and they realize that the prosperity of the ex¬ hibitor means the benefit of the ex¬ change and the advantage of the man¬ ufacturer. Too many exchanges re¬ sult in cut-throat prices and store shows in near proximity, lured into the exhibition business by the glamour of low rentals. This detracts from the legitimate exhibitor. Independent Growth. The allied independent manufactur¬ ers are now enabled to offer the prod¬ uct of twenty manufacturers includ¬ ing twenty-eight reels weekly, with facilities for increasing this output. This gives to the independent exhib¬ itor a large variety, and permits an exchange to form circuits without a conflict of program. As a member of the Alliance, Mr. Amer, of the Buckeye Film Exchange, Dayton, Ohio, thanked the officers for the work they had done, and sug¬ gested that all difficulties having been adjusted to the satisfaction of every¬ body, all should work for the cause and toward one end. Charles Gor¬ man, of the Boston Film Exchange, Eugene Cline and William H. Swan¬ son also made brief speeches. Many Are Present. The manufacturers present included the following: Baumann, C. O., Nevfr York Motion Picture Compafly. Cochrane, T. D., Imp. Company. Dintenfass, Mark, Champion Film 'Company. Horsley, David, Nestor Film Com¬ pany. Kessel, A., New York Motion Pic¬ ture Company. Magie, George, Kinograph Com¬ piles, Herbert, Atlas Film Com¬ pany. Powers. P. A., Powers Company. Raver, Harry R., Motograph Com¬ pany. Steiner, Wm, Yankee Film Com¬ pany. Swanson, Wm. H., Defender Com, P Thanhouser, Edwin, Thanhouser Company. Whyte, A. G. I The film renters present 1 w follows i Amer, Charles, Buckeye Film Ex change, Dayton, Ohio. Bachman, R. G., Great Westerr Film Service, Chicago. 3 Cline, Eugene, Chicago.. Davis, A. S., Independent Film Ex change, Pittsburg. Fitzjarrel, H. A., Consolidate! Amusement Company. Baltimore, Md Greene, W. E., Boston. ' Gorman, Charles, Boston Film Rer, tal Company. Kessel, A., Empire Film Exchange New York. Kessel, L., Great Eastern Film Ex change, New York. McMahon, I. W„ Cincinnati Film Exchange. Monheimer, J., Paramount Film Exchange, New York. „ Plough, C. R., Anti-Trust Film Ex change, New York. ,* Reilly, J. L., American Film Ex change, Pittsburg. Reilly, Thomas, Southern Film Ex change, Cincinnati. Steiner, Wm., Steiner Film Ex, change. New York. Schmidt, A. J., Victor Film Service Buffalo, N. Y. Mm jj Scherer, Charles, Bijou Film an<J Amusement Company, Kansas Cityj Swanson, Wm. H., Chicago, Denvei and St. Louis. Wagner, A., Wagner Film Service! St. Louis. “FLOATING PIANO” TRICK UNHAPPILY EXPOSED The hypnotic influence of Pro: Onaip, the “magician” of the piano, v snapped suddenly Wednesday night i the middle of a performance at th Majestic theater. His assistant, wh gracefully performed in mid-air on th seemingly floated piano, knew that tl thread of influence was broken-: for a brief instant, he knew that somi thing else had broken—when he wa 1 treated to a very real fall and a smai rap on the head by the floor. If there was anybody ip the audi ence who couldn’t figure out howth; piano and the performer floated in th air while the professor made cabalist genuflections, the illusion was-di pelled when he heard a sharp “pin| that sounded like a breaking wire, the artist tumbled to the floor. But even then the piano player ried out his end of the hypnotic < tract. He lay motionlessfjand apt ently in a trance. That was all righ the “huskies” who doused him wit water knew that it wasn’t;so much trance as the fact that he had abo all the sense knocked out of him the fall. Then the artist came ft), rubbed dome and walked off the stage. “It was just an illusionjyou » not real hypnotism,” explained Ma ager Glover. “Something-OTgET illusion failed to illude and the a. got a bump on the head that put " into a real trance for ninute Fire Causes Postponement. Jamestown. N. Y„ July 13.-™', cent disastrous fire in this city ■ ment of the Jamestown , mmtm Celebration which had been set August 29-Sept. 4. Violet Staley, who made quit' enviable reputation, for herselt in deville, will return to the P rote after an absence of three years.