Motion Picture News (Apr - Jun 1914)

i8 THE MOTION PICTURE NEWS BIG PLANS FOR CAROLINA CONVENTION The convention of the exhibitors of North and South Carolina which will be held in Charlotte, North Carolina, May 18, 19 and 20, will be at the same time as the great Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence celebration, and will therefore obtain much publicity. The exhibitors will have several floats and do all in their power to advertise the industry. The parade, which will take place on May 20, will be in the following order: Section 1, history of Charlotte illustrated by costumes and floats. Section 2, civic parades. Section .3, army and navy. Section 4, industrial parade to be headed by the motion picture interests. Section 5, fraternal orders. Section 6, agriculture. A number of c&mera-men have applied for permits and will make pictures of the event. These films will be shown in several of the local houses which have already contracted for them. The manufacturers have been requested to contribute a small sum each, to build another float to show the motion picture industry and to tell the power of the films. The national organizer of the Motion Picture Exhibitors League, John Bradlet, will be in New York some time this week, and will visit the manufacturers with this idea in mind. PREPARING FOR MICHIGAN CONVENTION Preparations are well under way for the convention of the Motion Picture League of Michigan, to be held in Detroit, June 19-12. The entire roof garden floor of the Hotel Tuller has been reserved as headquarters for the league. There will be a large film exhibition room, a convention hall and booths for exhibitors of motion picture supplies on this floor. There is also a banquet hall and lounging rooms. Entertainment will be found in the numerous opportunities for boat excursions on the lakes and river. There are 1,200 motion picture theatres in Michigan and the greater part of them will be represented at this gathering. NOVELIZE ECLECTIC STORIES The Eclectic Film Company, in collaboration with the Hearst papers, is publishing all of their multiple reel releases, in the form of serial stories similar to the "Perils of Pauline." "Loyalty," an elaborately colored picture, is the first of these and will be followed by a story called "War," which describes the action of the film "War Is Hell." The Eclectic company report this as being a tremendous advertising proposition. Plans for Rochester Convention Mayor Will Deliver Address of Welcome on May 5 — Grand Ball in the Evening as Finale ELABORATE plans for the fourth annual convention of New York State Branch, No. 11, Motion Picture Exhibitors' League of America, to be held at the Hotel Seneca, Tuesday, May 5, are under way and it is ex over 10,000 delegates and their families will attend. A grand ball, to be held in Convention Hall in the evening, will wind up the state convention. W. C. Hubbard, chairman of the committee of ar KOCiii-SXliil OOWVEMXiOM COMMITTEE Standing (left to right), C. L. Staley, N. A. V\'escott, E. K. Knauss, Frank Simpson. (Seated), W. C. Hubbard, State Treasurer, F. C. Gorhng, A. N. Wolff, President, Frank C. Fierce, National Vice-President, W. R. Trimdiner pected that a large number of delegates will be present. Among those who have accepted invitations to attend are National President M. A. NefT, of Cincinnati; National Secretary George H. Wiley, of Kansas City, Mo.; and National Vice-President F. C. Pierce, of Geneva; N. Y. State Secretary Morris L. Fleischman, of New York City, and First Vice-President I. L. Davis, of Binghamton, N. Y., have also announced their intention of being present. Mayor H. H. Edgerton has been invited to address the delegates at an open meeting to be held at 10:30 a.m. in the ballroom of the Seneca. Current afifairs in the motion picture world will be discussed by the national officers at this meeting. At 2 p.m. the convention will go into executive session and reports from the various officers will be received. Election of officers for the coming year will follow. The chief purpose of the convention is for the election of delegates to attend the national convention, to be held at Dayton, O., the week of July 6. This convention probably will be the largest and most successful one in the history of the national organization. It is expected that rangements, has plans under way for several novel features which v;ill be announced later. Word has been received from New York that four of the well-known actors and actresses of the motion picture world will be in Rochester to attend the ball, and it is probable that informal receptions will be held by them at several of the local theatres. WILD BEASTS BATTLE AT UNIVERSAL ZOO LTniversal City, Cal., April 20. Two full-grown lionesses were soundly whipped by a diminutive leopard weighing less than 50 pounds here. The fight between the three animals lasted more than half an hour, and was ended only when a half dozen trainers wielded red-hot irons. Both lionesses were tefribly clawed, while the leopard suffered a broken leg and many wounds. The fight started when a menagerie employee unwittingly opened a slide in a "run-way" connecting the cages of animals in the big menagerie of the Universal Film Manufacturing Company, with a performing cage. One of the lionesses will probably have to be killed as a result of the wounds she suffered in the fight.