Motion Picture News (Apr - Jun 1914)

24 THE MOTION PICTURE NEWS ing machines liave been installed, together with the accoutrements that go with a well-equipped booth. The ventilation of the theatre marks, as do other parts of the house, an epoch in the history of the motion picture industry. Many of the disadvantages with which contemporaries have had to compete have been absolutely eliminated. The winter ventilation is arranged in a manner which will neither allow overheating nor underheating. The "mushroom" system is used in which air is forced into a plenum chamber, where it is heated, and then passes through a mushroom-shaped radiator under the seats and so warms the house The same system is used in the summer time, save that a blower, which cools the air, is put in .'.ervice. Professor Carl Edouarde has been engaged to lead the orchestra of twenty-five soloists, which will be pierced upon the stage proper in full sight of the audience. Two large organs of the Austin make have been installed and two organists engaged to play them. The musicians are entirely .^urroundecl by ferns and flowers, and a large fountain will be placed directly in front of them; this idea has been worked to advantage in several other .\merican theatres. THE motto of the theatre is t<J have "photo-play features" blended with the very finest music; everything that is "put on" will be "produced." Eighty-four inipjoyees will lake care of the building every day. Much time has been spent ijy tiif management in hunting out novelties, for the theatre itself is, for the time being, a novelty to the layman. For instance, the tickets, which will be sold at the very popular prices of ten, fifteen and twenty-five cents, will be printed as they are sold. The entire management of the theatre will be under the capable care of S. L. Rothapfel, who will stage every picture produced. Notes from League Headquarters RICH WOMEN RUN PICTURE SHOW .\ number of society women in Boston and Brookline, Mass., have become the backers of a motion i)ieture show to which an admission of five and ten cents is charged. Not only are these women subscribing funds to make the show pay, but they are giving up some of their engagements that they may attend. The younger set are giving u{) tlieii time also and rehearsing vaudevilb acts for the same theatre. The purpose of this is to give Brooklineitcs a chance to see a good show and to keep tiie ciiildren ofif the streets. Cincinnati, April '.). JAI. KAUFMAN, first vice-presi. dent of the Ohio State League, proprietor of the Gallipolis Theatre, Gallipolis, Ohio, was a visitor at league headquarters. He reports good business in southern Ohio, and while in the city made arrangements to run the Cincinnati picture, taken during the late convention in January. Mr. Kaufman is one of the pioneers who organized the Motion Picture E.xhibitors League of America, at Columbus. Ohio, on September \2. 1910. John H. Ijroomhall. secretary oi the Ohio State League, was a caller at league headquarters. Mr. Broomhall is a pioneer in the picture business. He has for years owned and operated the Jewel Theatre in Hamilton, Ohio. He has recently bought the Jefferson Theatre in Hamilton, and is arranging to gi\e the highest class features made at the Jefferson. Sam P. Broomhall is the manager. Dayton Local No. 5, headtpiarters of which are located in the Pruden lUiilding, Dayton, has one of the most acti\e locals in the State of Ohio. Last Monday the Lyric, Columbia. Ideal. Electric, Apollo, and the iMajestic Theatres all joined in the local league. This brings into the league every downtown house in Dayton. On Monday, April 6, there will be a big smoker given at the Dayton league headquarters in the Pruden I'.uilding. President M. A. Neff, Cincinnati; National Treasurer Orene Parker, Covington, Ky., and National Committeeman Peter J. Jcup. of Detroit. Mich., will be present. .\bout half of the space of the big International Exposition of Arts to he held in Dayton in conjunction' with the National Motion Picture Exhibitors League Convention of .\:iicrica, beginning July T), and closing the night of July 11, has been sold. The convention committee will meet in Dayton Monday evening and take up every detail of the convention. George H. Wiley, who is chairman of the committee on exposition, has opened his offices in Dayton and will remain there until after the close of the convention. Clem Kerr, of Dayton, the ])romoting assistant, is making a splendid record, and reports that space beyond their fondest expectations has been contracted for. L. H. Ramsey, Lexington, Ky., is making arrangements to build a large new theatre in Lexington. Ci. i;. McClelland, of Osgood, Ind.. is building a new $7,000 theatre in that little town. Frank Huss, of Fifth Street, Cincinnati, and friends are building a theatre in the suburbs of Louisville. Ky. T. P. Finnegan, national vice-president of Dallas, Texas, who has recently finished a $75,000 picture theatre in Waco and owns two other large theatres, will build a $250,000 picture theatre in Fort Worth. Tex. Cincinnati Local No. 2 held a large enthusiastic meeting in Parlor F of the Sinton Hotel on Wednesday afternoon, April 1. Owing to the death of his father. .Secretary H. G. Kruse was absent. The censor bill No. 4941, introduced in the Senate on March 18, 1914, by Senator Hoke Smith of Georgia, and censor bill No. 14895, introduced by Mr. Hughes of Georgia, do not seem to meet with the approval of the exhibitors and manufacturers. It is claimed by exhibitors that if either of these bills were passed they would not give relief to the public, the exhibitor or the manufacturer, by reason of the fact that while the pictures might come under the jtirisdiction of the interstate commerce, there is no provision in the law whereby an exhibit(5r who exhibited a picture that the State or local police might decide that was not a fit subject to run. would be protected. The matter would be left e.xactly the same as it is at the present time. The motion picture exhibitors want a law that will protect the public and the exhibitors in their rights of running pictures when they once have been censored. This can be done only by a legal censor board that has the power to censor pictures and that the pictures shall be shown in every state or municipality, other laws to the contrary notwithstanding. M.P. E. L. CONVENTION DATES The Motion Picture Exhibitors League of America announce the following dates for coming conventions : Florida, Sanford, .\pril 6-7; Wisconsin, Green Bay, April 7-8 ; Kentucky, Lexington, Phoenix Hotel, April 21-22; Illinois, Springfield, St. Nicholas Hotel. April 28-29; New York, Rochester, May 5; Iowa, Des Moines, May 12-1,3; North and South Carolina, Charlotte, N. C, Stonewall Hotel, May 18-19-20; ."Mabama, Birmingham, May 21-22; Michigan, Detroit, TuUer Hotel. Tune 9-10-11.