Exhibitors Herald and Moving Picture World (Apr-Jun 1930)

90 Better Theatres Section April 12, 1930 Draw Curtain Track Installations DE LUXE— SUPERIOR PUBLIC AUDITORIUM PORTLAND, OREGON ST. LOUIS THEATRE ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI CENTURY THEATRE DETROIT, MICHIGAN CAPITOL THEATRE DAVENPORT, IOWA ORPHEUM THEATRE OMAHA, NEBRASKA R.K.O. PRESIDENT THEATRE ST. PAUL, MINNESOTA 223-233 West Erie Street CHICAGO IS YOUR I N S U RAN C E LAGGING 9 9 9 ♦ ♦ ♦ Have you increased your protection since you invested all that extra money in sound equipment? Get your policies out of the safe and do a little figuring. You may be a few thousands short of full protection. In our ten years of close attention to the motion picture industry’s needs we have often found insurance lagging behind increased investment. This is true of producers, and equipment manufacturers as well as exhibitors. Check up, then call WABash 0173 or write us at 175 West Jackson Boulevard, Chicago, 111., Room 937. “Protection for you is our watchword.” IHJ U LES J U I L L A R D CO. Multiple arc generators are designed and built to generate direct current for many arcs. They are used in the motion picture booths where there are two arcs on the picture machines, one or more spotlights and a double dissolving stereopticon and effect machine. The multiple arc generator correctly built, will carry the entire battery of arc lamps and various amperages. The variance in amperages is controlled by the necessary rheostats. Prices range from $350 up. The American Transformer Company, 178 Emmet Street, Newark. N. J. AUTOMATIC DEVICES COMPANY, Allentown, Pa. Continental Electric Company, 323 Ferry Street, Newark, N. J. Electric Specialty Company, 211 South Street, Stamford, Conn. Fidelity Electric Company, Lancaster, Pa. Forest Electric Company, 272 New Street, Newark, N. J. GARVER ELECTRIC COMPANY, Union City, Ind. General Electric Company, 1 River Road, Schenectady, N. Y. J. H. Hallberg, 29 W. 57th Street, New York City. HERTNER ELECTRIC COMPANY, 12690 Elmwood Avenue, Cleveland, O. Hobart Brothers Company, Troy, O. Ideal Electric & Manufacturing Company, Mansfield, O. Liberty Electric Corporation, Stamford, Conn. Northwestern Electric Company, 409 S. Hoyne Street, Chicago, 111. Robbins & Meyers Company, Springfield, O. ROTH BROTHERS, 1400 W. Adams Street, Chicago, 111. WESTINGHOUSE ELECTRIC & MANUFACTURING COMPANY, East Pittsburgh, Pa. Grilles RILLES in both brass and bronze ^ are used in box office windows, organ grille openings, ceilings under balconies (usually illuminated), and in radiator openings in lobbies. Manufacturers of this item show many designs to select from. Can be bought in standard sectional assembly or built to order. Daniel Ornamental Iron Works, 4435 W. Division Street, Chicago, 111. Newman Manufacturing Company, Norwood Station, Cincinnati, O. F. P. Smith Wire & Iron Works, 2346 Clybourne Street, Chicago, 111. The Stewart Iron Works Company, Inc., 504 Stewart Block, Cincinnati, O. The Voigt Company, 1745 N. 12th Street, Philadelphia, Pa. ZERO VALVE & BRASS CORPORATION, 634 Fourth Street, Buffalo, N. Y. Gummed Labels SPECIALLY prepared gummed labels ^ to expedite the preparation of parcel post and express packages are now on the market. These time savers are sold at a very nominal cost. Their use minimizes the possibility of torn or missing labels and the resultant lost package. Tablet & Ticket Company, 1021 W. Adams Street, Chicago, 111. A Hand Blowers XJAND blowers are small electric instruments used to blow dust or dirt out of places too small to wipe clean, places that might endanger one’s hands or equipment too delicate to handle. They are especially handy in cleaning amplifiers, dimmers, motors, organs, chandeliers, etc. Clements Mfg. Company, 690 Fulton Street, Chicago. 111. . A Hand Driers 'VT/'HAT is known as the sanitary hand drier for the lavatories of theatres is an electrically operated blower type of drier, through which a current of warm air evaporates the water on the hands. Driers of this type are built of cast iron with a heavy white porcelain finish with the metal parts of nickel plate. These driers stand about 46 inches high with full 360-degree swivel nozzle and are operated by a foot lever or automatic cut-off push button which turns the switch on and off. Airdry Corporation, Groton, N. Y. Milwaukee Engineering & Manufacturing Company, 261 S. Water Street, Milwaukee, Wis. Sani Products Company, 209 W. Randolph Street, Chicago, 111. A Hardware, Stage 'W/’ITH the growing popularity in theatres of presentation acts a need is apparent for equipment to meet the varied physical requirements in the way of stage hardware to accomplish this purpose. The subject of stage hardware takes in many items, large and small, which are equipment essentials in the stage that is to be prepared to house a variety of acts or talent. Under the heading of stage hardware are included such items as blocks and pulleys of all types, counterweights and arbors, belay pins, cleats, curtain tracks, keystones and corners, pin rails, pin wire, rope, manila and wire, rope locks, sand bags, smoke pocket stage screws, trim clamps, winches, carriers for extra-large screens and horns. Steel curtains and counterweight rigging are also important items of the equipment in the modern stage. Acme Stage Equipment Company, 191 Lafayette Street, New York City. BRUCKNER-MITCHELL INC., 532-540 W. 22nd Street, New York City. J. H. CHANNON CORPORATION, 223 W. Erie Street, Chicago, III. J. R. Clancy, 1010 W. Belden Avenue, Syracuse, N. Y. Great Western Stage Equipment Company, 817 Holmes Street, Kansas City, Mo. Lee Lash Studios, 1818 Amsterdam Avenue, New York City. TIFFIN SCENIC STUDIOS, Tiffin, O. Twin City Scenic Company, 2819 Nicollett Avenue, Minneapolis, Minn. VOLLAND SCENIC STUDIOS, 3737 Cass Avenue, St. Louis, Mo. A Heaters, Organ Refer to ORGAN HEATERS A Heaters, Ticket Booth Refer to TICKET BOOTH HEATERS A Heating Systems 'T'HERE are a number of types and arrangements of theatre heating systems, each designed to fit the individual building. One of the systems is known as the fuel-to-air method whereby the transmission of the heating effect from the fuel is obtained without the intermediate processes of transmission through piping and radiators. The volumes of outdoor air entering the system are heated quickly and uniformly, producing comfortable heating and invigorating ventilation in all seasons of the year. The heating units most generally used to warm the incoming air are commonly known as unit heat generators. More specifically, the operation of the warming and ventilating is as follows: The air is drawn in through a fresh air shaft into the fan room, passing through air washers and being thoroughly washed and properly humidified.