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for four years, and then accepted the position as treasurer for Weber and Fields at the Little Music Hall, at Twenty-ninth street and Broadway, New York City. He held that position for three years, and in 1895 joined hands with Messrs. Hurtig and Seamon in the capacity as manager and auditor for their circuit of theatres. He remained with that firm for fourteen years, and in 1909 built the palatial Prospect Theatre at 160th street and Westchester avenue, Bronx. The Royal Theatre was opened September 6th, 1913.
To keep in the forefront of human achievement requires unremitting endeavor. To have always been — and still to remain — an acknowledged leader in all that pertains to the theatre shows unalterable purposefulness during a lifetime of progress.
Marcus Loew, supreme in "small-time" vaudeville in the East and West, owes his start to motion pictures, and lately has used big-feature films to stimulate business in his picture and vaudeville theatres.
Marcus Loew has discovered that the names of wellknown producers, combined with familiar names of plays and players, have proved a success from a boxoffice standpoint, and at the present writing big feature photoplays of three parts or more are being shown in practically all of his theatres.
Mr. Loew contracted to show exclusively in his theatres all the photoplay productions released by Klaw and Erlanger, which have proved big money winners for him. After "The Fatal Wedding," the first K and E film, was shown at the Palace Theatre, it was shown in all the Loew houses, and now his theatres present the pictures exclusively. "The Fatal Wedding" proved an artistic and financial triumph. "Classmates" helped break records at the American Theatre, and "The Bil