The Exhibitor (October 15, 1920)

36 •THE EXHIBITOR," OCTOBER 15, 1920 Pete Oletsky Opens New Exchange in Baltimore To Distribute Federated Releases, Clara Kimball Young Features and Other Independent Productions With the Builders Theatre, Coatesville — For C. E. Middleton. One story, brick, 30x100. Plans completed and ready for bids. R. A. Kearns, architect. Pete Oletsky, well-known film and theatreman, has opened a new independent exchange, to be known as the Federated Film Exchange of Baltimore, Inc., at 412 E. Baltimore Street, Baltimore, Md., which, judging by the announcement of releases, is destined to become an important factor in the film industry in that territory. Among the subjects contracted for by Mr. Oletsky are Clara Kimball Young Equity features, by special arrangement with Mr. Ben Amsterdam, of the Equity Productions of Philadelphia, and “The Tiger Brand,” a new serial. Mr. Oletsky has also obtained for Maryland, District of Columbia, Delaware and Virginia the Federated Film Exchanges, Inc., franchise which will assure him of a regular output of high-grade productions. Among the pictures already announced by this co-operative company of independent exchanges are: four Bessie Love features, Billie Rhoades in “Nobody’s Girl,” a series of eighteen Monte Banks comedies, each in two reels, “The Good Bad Wife,” and a masterly film version of Charles Rand Kennedy’s memorable stage success, “The Servant in the House.” Mr. Oletsky declares that he will distribute the pick of the independent feature market and will shortly announce a number of additional feature productions of unusual box office magnitude. Pete Oletsky, the proprietor of the new Federated Exchange of Baltimore, has been active in film circles in that city for the past ten years and is one of the best known film men in this part of the country, enjoying the personal friendship of almost every exhibitor in Maryland, District of Columbia, Delaware and Virginia. For many years he held the Universal Film franchise for his zone, having only recently resold this to the Universal Company of New York. Mr. Oletsky owns and operates three theatres in Baltimore which enables him to judge pictures from the exhibitor’s point of view. Exhibitors predict a certain success for the new enterprise. Fox Buys Two Organs J. Fox, who recently acquired the three theatres in Burlington, N. J., has purchased two Robert Morton organs. PETE OLETSKY iii:iin:iiiiiiiii:iiii;iiii:imtiiiiiiiiiiim:iiii:iiii:iiiiiiiiiiii<iimiiiiii:iiiiiMii:iiii:iiii:iiii:iiii:iiiiiiiiniiii!iiiiiiiiii:i m ini: im:i!ii mi ihi:iiii:iiimiii:iiii iiii:iiii:iiii:mi:iiii;iiii;iiiiiiiii:iiii iiii:iiir>iiii:iiiimii iiiriu::ii Strand, Bridgeport, Sold Mr. M. Bloom, a well-known local exhibitor, has sold the Strand Theatre, Bridgeport, Pa., possession to be given to the purchaser about November 13th. Moving Picture Theatre (alt.), 4910 Wayne Avenue — To F. S. MacPherson, Haddon Heights. For Helen Albert, 42 W. Ashmead Place. Cost $3000. Permit granted. Moving Picture Theatre, Rising Sun Avenue and Fanshawe — for Suburban Amusement Co. One story, brick, stone and steel, 75x141. Engineers taking subbids. H. N. Miller & Company, 34 S. Seventeenth Street, engineers. E. J. Smith Wins Universal Prize In a $10,000 nation wide prize contest conducted by the Universal Film Company for the greatest increase in business over the previous period, E. J. Smith, assistant district manager, and formerly branch manager of the Cleveland office, was awarded the first prize of $1700 for himself and his associates. This is the second successive prize to be won by Mr. Smith and his associates in such a contest. THE STEALERS ARE COMING! I* — •».—»»—»■ It! ill HE Exhibitors League conveys to its members — the Comer ford Amusement Company and Wil mer and Vincent, best wishes for an era of continuous prosperity on the occasion of the opening of their respective theatres: the Capitol, Wilkes-Barre and the Colonial, Allentown. ^ Hi it! ill ill II! Ill III +— ■4il ■•llinir = mnimr +