Exhibitors Herald (Apr-Jun 1922)

92 EXHIBITORS HERALD May 20, 1922 Th eatres Providing Comfort for Fans Is an Asset. Exhibitors Know This. Palaces Are Going Up. Only the Latest Equipment Is Being Installed New Projects Brockton, Mass. — John M. Whitney has completed plans for a new motion picture theatre at Davis and South avenues to have a seating capacity of 600. Rockford, 111. — Work will probably be started soon on the new theatre at Main and Auburn streets for the Alahambra Theatre Corporation. Chester E. Wolfley is the architect. * Los Angeles — Plans are being prepared for a $100,000 motion picture theatre to seat 900 for Henry C. Jensen to be erected at Melrose avenue and Heliotrope drive. Lincoln, 111. — Excavating work has been started for the new $125,000 theatre to be built by Steve Bennis. * Chicago, 111. — C. A. Johnson will build a $200,000 theatre at Belmont and Hamlin avenues from plans prepared by Architects Levy and Klein. * Independence, Mo. — The New Lewis theatre wil be remodeled and the seating capacity increased from 800 to 1,300. * Chicago, 111. — $150,000 will be spent in remodeling the Garrick theatre. J. E. O. Pridmore is the architect. * Marion, O. — William T. Jones has awarded the contract to Marion Construction Company for the store and theatre building here. on 63rd street between Blackstone and Harper avenues by J. M. Browarsky & Company at an estimated cost of $2,500,000. * Madison, Wis. — Fischer Theatres plan to build a $300,000 theatre here to have a seating capacity of 1,800, it is announced. * Dinuba, Cal. — Contract has been let to M. Fisher of San Francisco for the new Strand theatre which will be built here at a cost of $150,000, by J. F. Williams. Chicago, 111.— A $600,000 theatre and business block is proposed for Irving Park boulevard near Drake and Central Park avenues by Architect S. Milton Eichberg who has purchased the property. * Utica, N. Y.— W. H. Linton, lessee of the Hippodrome theatre, has purchased the site of the property and will erect on it a new theatre, to be built by himself or by outside capital. Whitman, Mass. — John M. Whitney will build a new motion picture theatre on Davis street, to have a seating capacity of 600. * New York, N. Y. — Lawrence Bolognino has purchased from Brown Place Theatre Corp. property on 138th street for a new 2,800 seat motion picture theatre to cost $500,000. Ownership Changes Muscatine, la. — C. J. Jamieson has acquired possession of the Gayety theatre. * Pawnee City, Nebr. — The leading motion picture theatre here has been purchased by Edward Taylor of Tarkio, Mo., from Olin Shannon and Earl *Nesbit. * Boulder, Mont. — Mrs. H. E. Thompson, who has been conducting the Temple theatre for the past two years, has sold the business to H. K. Hundley and Ed. Ivey. in this city, has been purchased by Herbert Bleuchel of Norfolk, Neb. " * Rock Rapi,ds, la.— Ray Niles has sold his motion picture theatre here to Henry Folkens of George, la. * Knoxville, la.— Harry V. Nelson of Cedar Rapids has purchased the motion picture theatre interests of Messrs. West and Davis. * Vining, Ore. — O. Bergner has sold his Vining theatre to H. B. Hurst and Fred dishing of Portland. Openings Houston, Tex. — The Rialto, Houston's newest motion picture house has beer opened. The theatre seats 500 and is managed by L. N. Weiner. • Jersey City, N. J.— Frank G. Hall, president of State Theatres Corporation has opened the new State theatre. * West St. Paul, Minn.— The New Mohawk theatre, owned and operated by W. J. and O. Christians, the latter president of the Cherokee Heights State Bank, has been officially opened. ( Chicago, 111. — A theatre will be built Cedar Rapids, Neb. — The Isis theatre "Wandering Boy" Timely "Mother's Day" Film Equity Pictures States, As a "Mother's Day" attraction "Where | is My Wandering Boy Tonight?" the Equity-B. F. Zeidman production being distributed by state right exchanges, it is pointed out, is a film the story of which ties up closely with the occasion of "Mother's Day." The picture tells the story of a young man living in a small country town with his mother, who is lured to the big city by a passing show girl. Many adven , tures befall him but at last, broken in health and accused of crime he returns, to his mother and childhood sweetheart. The story is said to have a well interwoven humorous vein as well as a strong sympathetic appeal. It is enacted by a cast including Patsy Ruth Miller, Cullen Landis and others. ■ Heating Ventilating V Let the theatre I ventilation I specialists tell vou how — 71 North 6th Street Brooklyn, N. Y. An outstanding reason for the pre-eminent popularity of the HERALD with the creators of motion pictures — directors, players and writers — is the department, "What the Picture Did for Me," which affords the one indisputable record of box office performance. BURTON HOLMES LABORATORY 7510 North CHICAGO Ashland Ave. PRINTING 1819 Broadway urill VftDI/ Room 308 HL WW TUI\R QUALITY FIRST DEVELOPING TINTING TONING