Exhibitors Herald (Jun-Dec 1917)

EXHIBITORS HERALD :>.3 ERNEST SHIPMAN WILL HANDLE PRODUCT OF INDEPENDENT PRODUCERS ON OPEN MART Establishes Own Business in N. Y. for Selling to State Rights Buyers, Circuits and Programs ; Will Export Through Chester Beecroft Ernest Shipman announces to the rade that he has started in business for limself as New York representative for he independent producers and will landle their product in the open market, selling to state rights buyers, ciruits and programs, in America, and will xport through the well organized offices M Chester Beecroft. for the foreign eld. Shipman's business is matrimonial. it marries the producer and the buyer o one another. They meet under the lost favorable business circumstances, alk a bit, flirt a bit, and then sign a ontract of mutual understanding. Quick film marriages of this nature re the direct result of pre-education Ipon Shipman's part. He takes the ride by the hand, talks' to her like a father, and removes all ideas of inflated values. The groom, more experienced by much buying of brides in the open market, is warned not to be too exacting. Soon a satisfactory match is made and thousands of film theater patrons enjoy the results. If a bride should not be quite ready to make her debut, Shipman places a complete laboratory at her disposal, where she can re-dress, and powder up a bit, take in and re-title, until ready for the inspection of the groom and his friends, and arrangements are concluded with the most active mediums of publicity, whereby the wedding will promptly be made known to the film fans in all parts of the world. As Shipman says: "I have started something." ;50,000 GLASS STUDIO BEING BUILT AT LASKY PLANT ON PACIFIC COAST BESSIE BARRISCALE STARTS NEW FILM "WITHIN THE CUP' Bessie Barriscale has finished work on "Madam Who," Harold MacGrath's military secret service romance, and has started production of her third Paralta picture, "'Within the Cup," under the direction of Raymond B. West. The story of this play was written by Monte M. Katterjohn and relates the career of a daring young literary woman. The atmosphere is strictly Bohemian. The opening scenes are laid in the Latin quarter in Paris and then shift to old Greenwich village. New York. A big feature of this picture will be a students' ball, typical of the "Bal Bullier" of Paris. Mr. West spent a month in the reference department of the Los Angeles public library looking up authorities for this picture, especially relating to the student life in Paris. Miss Barriscale will be seen in a very unique and artistic costume in the ball room scene. She will dress her part in this incident exactly as such a complex woman as she will portray would be likely to dress under the circumstances. Simultaneously with the arrival in California of Jesse L. Lasky, vice-presient of the Famous Players-Lasky Cororation, it was announced that the ''aragon studio and laboratories in Fort *ee, X. J., which have been operated nder lease by the concern for a num,'er of months, have been purchased outight. In addition to this, a $50,000 glass en'losed studio is to be erected on the •^asky property in Hollywood. These wo important additions to the already arge equipment of the company will ready facilitate production during the oming winter. ' Mr. Lasky announces that he is planing to carry on the greater propo-tion •f the producing activities on the west coast and that there is great probability that one or two of the stars now engaged in the Eastern studios will be transferred to California within the next month or so. "FIRING FATHER" IS THE SECOND STRAND THROUGH MUTUAL M. M. STEARNS, MAGAZINE WRITER, IS ENGAGED BY AMERICAN AS EDITOR Myron M. Stearns, for many years special contributor to Century, Forum, and other prominent magazines, under the pen name of John Amid, has been engaged by the American Film Company as assistant editor of the scenario department, under Clifford Howard, editor. "'Firing Father," a one-reel comedy, is the second of the new series of StrandMutual comedies starring Billie Rhodes. It is scheduled for publication Oct. 9. "Firing Father" deals with the trials and tribulations of a pair of lovers, who eventually outwit the girl's father by means of a fake conflagration. The new Mutual-Strand series opened Oct. 2 with "Some Nurse," the first of a series of forty-four one-reel comedies. Billie Rhodes is the star in the series, supported in most of the series by Jay Belasco. TWO SCENES FROM "THE CANDY KID" AND POSE OF BILLY WEST ILLY WEST IS SEEV AT HIS BEST IX THIS LATEST COMEDY WHICH IS SAID TO BE THE FUNNIEST OF THE SERIES DUCED. (King Bee Film Corp.) >0 FAR PRO