Exhibitors Herald (Dec 1919)

EXHIBITORS HERALD Carefully Combing Colorado ==== With H. E. N. Bid regretful adieu to the boys in the "Mile High" city, stepped on the starter and set out. Have thus far seen the trade in Colorado Springs, Trinidad and Pueblo. DENVER Noah G. Brewer of Sidney, Neb., who operates the U. S. Theatre in that city, was a visitor this week at the Swanson Theatre Equipment Company, where he purchased a new Gardiner Velvet-Gold Fibre Screen, two Simplex machines and a Ft. Wayne generating plant. This equipment is for his new theatre, which will open January first at Ft. Morgan. Colo. The remodeling of this building for theatre purposes is estimated to have cost, including real estate, $45,000. The seating capacityis 525 and the booking policy will be a daily change of program. * * * John Zanft, personal representative of William Fox, was a recent visitor here, and made many changes in the personnel of the management of the Fox theatres in this city, namely : Plaza, Isis, Strand and Rivoli. Edward Hymax, formerly Fox Liberty Theatre manager at St. Louis, was appointed regional director of the four Denver Fox houses. E. H. Hibbin, late of the Inter-Ocean Film Corporation, Xew York City, succeeds Mr. McDonald as manager of the Strand and Plaza Theatres. Essex Hurst of St. Louis will manage the Isis. Meredith Davis of the Denver Post will handle the publicity of the Fox theatres, and Charles Harrison Ernst will act as auditor and treasurer. COLORADO SPRINGS J. E. Tomtkins. manager of the Liberty Theatre, reports business good for the winter season, as this is a summer theatre town. He has installed a four-piece orchestra in the Liberty. Alice Joyce in "The Vengeance of Durand," played Thanksgiving week, with a special performance of "Poor Relations" on Thanksgiving Day. * * * Joe Koehler has resigned as manager of the Princess Theatre, and will go into the business for himself. The location, however, has not been decided upon. No successor for Mr. Koehler has been appointed for the Princess as vet. * '* * John E. Rogers, that hustling Fox salesman, was very much in evidence on the main stem of Colorado Springs last week, and from all reports he sure was cleaning up. Incidentally, wonder why John hangs around the Odeon box office so much? Col. Frank Robertson, who operates the Majestic Theatre at Manitou, Colo., reports that he will build a new theatre to be called the Rialto, which he will run in conjunction with the Majestic. The Colonel was visiting his many exhibitor friends here. * * * Colorado Springs will shortly have its first suburban house, which is to be located on Colorado avenue. R. R. Chamberlain, formerly an exhibitor of Leoti, Kan., operating the Ideal Theatre at that place, is remodeling property for this new suburban theatre, which will be named the Isis. It will have a seating capacity of 325 and part of the equipment was purchased from the Kansas City Machine Supply Company and the rest of the fixtures are part of the old Isis Theatre at Victory, Colo. The Isis will open December first with a Fox program. * * * Frank Tammex, that old-time showman of Sells-Floto circus fame, who owns the America Theatre here, has just completed remodeling the theatre at a cost of $18,000. This house has a $20,000 HopeJones organ and a seating capacity of 851 besides 84 loge seats. Manager Tammen has a very elaborate and beautiful stage setting for the screen, depicting different seasons of the vear. $ * 4 G. A. Loveland, for eight years of the Odeon here, reports that he will shortly install an automatic player for his Seeburg organ, to cost $3,000. The seating capacity of this house is 1,000, and Exhibitor Loveland says business is phenomenal. In this house a Wagner 50-50 converter is also being installed. PUEBLO L. R. Cutshaw, manager of the Majestic, reports that the steel strike is adjusting itself, but the coal strike has so affected his attendance that he is operating at a loss. The Majestic has just been redecorated and plans are now being drawn for the building of a new marquee and remodeled front. This house plays vaudeville Wednesday and Thursday nights and the balance of the week Universal and Goldwvn features. * * * Edward Anderson, manager of the Grand, will play Constance Talmadge in "The Virtuous Vamp," Christmas week, and "Back to God's Country," as the Thanksgiving SH A W( OULD 3MAN TE LL? ASK METRO week attraction. Mr. Anderson reports business affected by industrial conditions. J. M. Havden, Vitagraph representative for this territory, does not believe in loafing on Sundays, as he sure was one busy guy in Pueblo on the above mentioned day. Between Salesman Hayden and yours truly the exhibitors had an exciting day. TRINIDAD G. P. Nash, owner of the Strand Theatre, has just about completed his plans to move further uptown and build a strictly modern theatre, which will have a seating capacity of 1,200. (Exhibitor Xash reports business good, even in the face of strike conditions throughout the Trinidad district. A coming attraction for this house is Cecil B. DeMille's "Male and Female." * * * The K. & F. Amusement Co. of Trinidad, Colo., which operates the West and Rialto Theatres in this city, the Curran Theatre at Boulder, Colo., and the Coronado and Mutual Theatres at Las Vegas, X. M., has just installed a new photoplayer in the Rialto Theatre. The West Theatre plays stage attractions and all the big features. The Rialto, formerly the Rex, has just been taken over by the K. & F. Amusement Co. Spanish Novelist, Fox Guest, Praises Screen Blasco Ibanez, Spanish author of "The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse." a novel now engaging the critical attention of literary critics and readers, was recently a guest at the Fox studio, where he was introduced to William Fox, William Farnum and other members of the organization, taken through the studio and permitted to see motion pictures in the making. Speaking of the screen the Spanish notable said, "The screen is a marvelously fine medium through which to reach the millions upon millions of people all over the earth eager for entertainment and instruction. It is a wonderful privilege for a contemporary author to preserve for all mankind a living picture of the children of his imagination through the motion picture film — a privilege that was not vouchsafed to writers who poured forth their thoughts before the advent of the cinema." New Emotional Part For Gladys Leslie Gladys Leslie last week completed "The Midnight Bride." her next Vitagraph feature. It is not likely, however, that it will be published before the new year as "The Golden Shower," will be shown first. The latter will be presented during the present month. "The Midnight Bride" is based on the magazine story by Charles Stokes Wayne called '"The Marriage of Little Jeanne Sterling." It again offers Miss Leslie a dramatic role, the fourth she has had since Albert E. Smith decided that she was as well qualified for the emotional roles as she was for the lighter comedy characterizations of which she had made a specialty. 107