Motion Picture News (Apr - Jun 1914)

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72 THE MOTION PICTURE NEWS The Buffalo Motion Picture Exhibitors' Association held a luncheon and smoker at the Statler Hotel, Buffalo, N. Y., on Tuesday evening, June 2. Matters of importance to the association were discussed in open meeting and final arrangements made for the New York exposition trip. William A. Bean, president of the local association, announced that a large delegation would attend the exposition from Buffalo. For the first time in the history of motion pictures a foreign trade display is to be made. The Jesse L. La sky Feature Play Company, with a number of other American manufacturers, will send over thirty salesmen on the steamship Kroonland, in September, for a tour of the LatinAmerican countries. The Lasky company will show "The Squaw Man," "Brewster's Millions," "The Master Mind," "The Only Son" and "The Virginian" to exhibitors in these countries. "Henry" Mestrum is undoubtedly one of the best-known men in the motion picture business. He was known for many years merely as Roy E. Aitken, the brother of President Aitken of the Mutual Film Corporation", was the guest of honor at the dinner of the Western. Import and Allied Companies, at the Hotel Morence, London, on May 15, shortly before his departure from Great Britain for America, after an extended stay abroad. Mr. Aitken was presented with a gold cigarette case by A. E. Mainwaring, chief of staff of the Western Import Company, Ltd., and general felicitations were in order over the realization of the branch offices of the company in Paris and Berlin. The Western Import Company, Ltd., of London, is the English agency for the Mutual Film Corporation pictures. President Aitken, of the Mutual, was toasted by the banqueters during the evening. Bishop, Pessers & Company, Ltd., of London, England, the European »gents for the Balboa Feature Films, have fitted up comfortable and sump tuous offices in London where they will handle tlie films of the Long Beach company. The Progressive Motion Picture Corporation has opened branch offices at 2C5 North Twelfth street, Philadelphia, under the management of Eckfeldt and Sutton. This office will handle all the business in East Pennsylvania and Delaware. The other branch office is in Cleveland in the Cleveland "Leader" News Building, mider the management of Olds and Russell, and wil handle the l)usiness in the state of Ohio. Phillips Smalley, the director and leading man of the Rex Universal Ijrand, shot himself through the hand recently while inspecting a revolver. No bones were broken. HENRY MESTRUM ''Henry," the man behind C. B. Kleine, who at the age of seventyfive, retired last year. At that time Mr. Mestrum succeeded him in name as well as position. His firm are the oldest established makers of optical instruments. Matty Roubert, one of the bestknown child actors on the screen, is to appear sometime in the near future in a series of comedies now under course of construction at the I-mp studios in New York. Matty is seven MATTY ROUBERT years old and first connnenced theatrical work at the age of two and a half years. He has been with the Powers Brand at the Pacific Coast studios for the last year and a half. Matty will be known as "The Universal Boy." During this series he will meet many men and women well known in the world and will pose with them for the camera. In each case there will be a definite reason for the nieetin.i;. It is expected that one a week will be released. Lewis Hooper is directing the pictures. Marie Pavis is playing the mother. Judging by the number of complimentary letters received from exhibitors, exchanges and manufacturers, the Feature Film Directory, published by the Novelty Slide Company, of 67 West Twenty-third street. New York, has proved to be a valuable booking guide. One theatre manager writes that with this directory at hand he can do his week's booking in a few hours, and without the necessity of making inquiries from one exchange to another. This directory gives a listing of all feature productions released in the last three months; in addition, every feature exchange is listed according to its territory, together with the names of the features that each exchange handles. This directory is mailed gratis to all exhibitors on request. A wireless message was received at the offices of the Life Photo Film Corporation from Edward M. Roskam, its president, on board the "Olympic," advising the company that Mr. Roskam has taken several hundred feet of motion pictures on board, showing Colonel Roosevelt, Mrs. Nicholas Longworth, Evelyn Nesbitt Thaw and 20 of her stars and Marie Lloyd. When Eddie Roskam received the passenger list, showing the number of notables sailing with him, he grabbed his camera and two thousand feet of negative and resolved to make four times the cost of his trip. The Consolidated Film Supply Company, of Dallas, Texas, has completed a two-circuit booking arrangement which is now in effect. Two prints of every Universal film are brought to Dallas. This enables them to supply as many customers with every trade of their service. "This applies," Ned Depinet the manager, said, "To the thirty, sixty and ninety day film. We have made arrangements to take care of the firstlun film at other points.'' The new studio building of the Essanay Film Manufacturing Company in Chicago is one of the most model in the country. It is adjoining the old studio and is built of reinforced brick, three stories in height. The actual studio floor is about 100 feet long by 90 feet wide. One hundred and twenty Cooper-Hewitt mercury lights have been installed. The building will accommodate twice the number of people. Samuel Goldfish, executive head of the Jesse L. Lasky Feature Play Company, sailed for Europe on May 30 for a three months' stay. He is working on plans for the distribution '.f .\merican features.