Exhibitors' Times (May-Sep 1913)

EXHIBITORS' TIMES 15 Big Demand for Cowboy Subjects [Continued from page 8) Lawrence Smith, of Chattanooga. Tenn.. also contemplates opening Southern offices. H. Schwalbe, of Philadelphia, G. A. Edwards, President of the Electric Theatre Advertising Company, of Dayton, Ohio and W. H. Rudolph, of the same city, both have designs on Exclusive rights in their home state. The force of Reliance stage directors has been strengthened by the addition of Francis Powers, formerly of Pathe Freres and late Director for the Universal Company. Mr. Powers is a man of experience in stage craft, being known as an actor and author before he entered the motion picture field. For several years he was associated with David Belasco. making a number of contributions to the dramatic stage as a playwright. The closing scenes of Forrest Halsey's latest motion picture drama "SUCCESS'' give an idea of how different the story is from the usual run of subjects chosen for screen presentation. During a banquet tendered to a successful playwright, a poor girl artist struggling to make a bare living by painting cards, is dragged into the presence of the merrymakers by a wine-flushed youth who introduces her to his fellows as an excellent example of a "Failure." The girl was the fiancee of the successful writer in the old days of work and discouragement, and as he meets her thus face to face, he rises amid a death-like silence and offers a toast to the "Failure": "To that great failure, Edgar Allan Poe. To the hanged spy, Xathan Hale, whose only one regret was that he had but one life to give his Jack Meets His Waterloo, [American] country. To another who failed, Robert E. Lee. And last, to the man they hanged between two thieves— the One who loved the failures !" Each toast is illustrated by double exposure photography and as the dissipated revellers cower in their chairs, the Cross of Calvary appears driving them panic-stricken from the banquet hall. The final picture shows the author, voted a success by the world at large, lying prone among the table decorations — a failure in the eyes of heaven. In order to cope with the amount of work necessitated by the recent additions made to their Flushing plant, whereby the capacity and output of the firm has been more than doubled, the Gaumont Company has rented a suite in the World's Tower Building, 14 West 40th street, New York City, consisting of offices, projecting room, shipping department, and reception rooms. From Sept. 1st onward, a great deal of the office work will be transferred from Flushing to New York, and it will be a convenience for customers to see the principals in the city itself. Jack Meets His Waterloo, [American] Warren Kerrigan, the American Film Mfg. Co.'s popular leading man, has been awarded the palm. That Mr. Kerrigan needs no introduction to the motion picture public is attested by the result of the contest. His photograph has appeared in every trade paper, every periodical of consequence and in innumerable daily and weekly r.'iblications throughout the civilized world. He has made his appearance on the screen perhaps more frequently than any other actor in the world and he has been applauded more vociferously than has fallen to the honor of any one appearing before the footlights. Mr. Kerrigan is a man who can well bear this honor and whose further efforts on the screen will not fail to emphasize his splendid histronic ability. A TWO-MINUTE CHAT WITH WARREN KERRIGAN, HANDSOME LEADING MAN OF "FLYING A" COMPANY. The question has been put to me: "What do you consider your greatest achievement?" and to answer it is by no means an easy task. (Concluded on page 32.)