The theatre of science; a volume of progress and achievement in the motion picture industry (1914)

288 Ci)e Cfteatre C. Studio, a rendezvous for several independent companies, is located on Court Street, a hill towering immediately over the business center of Los Angeles. The Famous Players, among others, work from this plant, the noted Mary Pickford being the star. The local organization, known as the Bosworth Company, Inc., filming Jack London's stories, began its operations in Los Angeles, but has moved to the Norbig Studio at Edendale. The Lubin Company of Philadelphia maintains a Western company in the beautiful arroyo on Pasadena Avenue, Los Angeles. The productions here have been of the Western and melodramatic character. The Biograph Company has a studio at Georgia and Girard Streets, beautiful grounds behind a high board fence, where,, during the first season of the company, practically all of to-day's stars were assembled under one management, with Mr. Griffith directing. Down to date, the Biograph works in this studio during the ■winter months only. However, there is a possibility that they will maintain a company all the year round. Recent incorporations include the Fred Mace Feature Film Company, occupying the old Majestic site in Boyle Heights, the Edwin August Feature Film Company, the Criterion Feature Film Company, the Kennedy organization, and more than a dozen other independent concerns, doing both dramatic and commercial work. A summary of the facts and figures reveals surprising results in seven years. More than 3,000 people are employed as regulars and extras in and about Los Angeles. The combined salaries of the actors alone amounts to $1,420,000 per annum, and of extras almost one-half that sum. Rentals, overhead, and other ex