Exhibitors Herald (Dec 1924-Mar 1925)

January 3, 1925 EXHIBITORS HERALD XXI THE SUPERIOR PROJECTOR PROJECTION IS Your One Big Feature Improve your projection and you improve your box-office receipts. Our staff is ready to handle your problem and help you eliminate your worries. SOME EXCLUSIVE SUPERIOR FEATURES Special Fire Protective Devices Automatic “Take-up” Device Unique Oiling System Direct Motor Drive No Belts and Chains Unit Construction Less Parts Adapted to — G. E. Mazda Incandescent Lamp Projection Cinephor Condenser System. SEE OUR DISTRIBUTORS — Carolina Theatre Supply Co. 13 South Church St. Charlotte, N. C. Pil^im Photoplay Exchange, 736 South Wabash Ave., Chicago, 111. OR WRITE DIRECT TO SUPERIOR PROJECTOR, INC. COXSACKIE, NEW YORK U. S. A. Blue field, IV. J'a. — Plans are being prepared for Architects Carmichael & Millspaugh of Columbus for a new theatre for Bluefield which will have seating capacity of 1,600. The same architects are preparing sketches for a theatre for Welch, W. Va., which will seat 1,400. * Eria, Pa. — Architect George E. Eichenlaub. Commerce building, has under way or is preparing plans for twelve theatres to be erected in various states and ranging in cost from $20,000 to $200,000. Eichenlaub’s office handling all details for the owners. * Atlantic City, N. J. — The $4,000,000 theatre under construction here for the Stanley Company of America, is to be completed in July, according to present plans. * Longview, Wash. — The Columbia theatre here, being erected by Columbia Amusements, Inc., at a cost of $250,000, will be completed and ready for opening shortly after the first of the year. * Ennis, Texas. — Joe Baldridge, Jr., business man of this city, and J. E. Houdek, owner and manager of the Lyric theatre, have formed a partnership and have awarded contract for a theatre on West Konox street. Plans have been prepared by H. O. Blanding, Corsicana architect. * Omaha, Neb. — A modern picture theatre, having a seating capacity of 500 and involving an outlay of approximately $30,000, is to be erected at Ames Avenue and Thirtieth Street by Walter and William Creal, owners of the Suburban theatre. * Sturgis, Mich. — A modern theatre is to be erected in Sturgis by The Larkin Theatre Company of Dowagiac, Mich., combined with Sturgis interests. * Detroit, Mich. — Two neighborhood theatres are under construction here by W. S. Koppin. They are the Piccadilly on Fenkel Avenue between Quincy and Petoskey which will seat 1,200 and the Amsterdam, on Grand River Road near Birchwood which will seat about 400. South Pasadena, Cal. — The new $160,000 theatre to be erected here at Fair Oaks Avenue and Oxley Street will be started early in the year according to advices from West Coast Theatres, Inc. * Akron, 0. — The $1,200,000 Keith theatre project here, started and halted several years ago, with numerous rumors of its revival since, is again reported as an assured fact by H. E. Andress, president of the Main and High Realty Company. =1= Detroit, Mich. — Ground is soon to be broken for the $2,000,000 State theatre building to be erected by John H. Kunsky, C. Howard Crane and associates. Elmer G. Kiehler and Ben A. Dore are the architects for the project. 1,262 Concerns Enter Business During Year {Special to Exhibitors Herald) NEW YORK, Dec. 23. — -One thousand two hundred sixty two companies were chartered during the twelve months beginning Dec. 1, 1923, and ending November 30, 1924, according to a survey made by Film Daily. The capitalization of 926 companies which scheduled their active capital totaled $184,591,606. Incorporations in New York state were most, being 572. An Electric Sign Plus— How can you be satisfied with an ordinary, clear, running, still sign? ■ — When for a small extra investment, paid back in current saving, you can give your sign the PLUS value of motion and color. Talk it over with your sign man. ^ Flashers make possible almost any kind of action in an electric sign. Used on 85% of the flashing signs. Color Hoods snap over lamps of any size and produce brilliant color. Six rich, fadeless colors, including our new canary yellow. Write for circular of sign ideas and information 2651 W. Congress St. Chicago, III.