Motion Picture News (Apr - Jun 1914)

122 THE MOTION PICTURE NEWS More Light and Better With a dir your machine, thrown forwa steadj'. Focus result is bette tures. If your elec alternating cur Westinghous< Rectif will give you you need. It carbons and i ampere D.C. a lirojecting 130 furnished for amperes. Enti Send for folder Westinghouse E East Pi Sales Offices in ect-current arc in all the light is rd. The light is ing is easy. The r and clearer pic tric service is only rent, a ;-Cooper Hewitt ier Outfit the direct current saves money in n current. A 30rc is sufficient for feet. Outfits also 40 and for 50 rely automatic. 4205. Dept. AG .lectric & Mfg Co. ttsburgh, Pa. 4S American Citiet. LOCAL PICTURES Your negative developed, printed and titled complete c delivered within per foot 12 hours We Set the Pace, Let Those That Can, Follow Feature Work Our Specialty Titles 6^ per foot GUNBY BROS., Inc. 145 West 45th St., N. Y. City JOHN W. MLATH 145 West 45th St., New York FILMS BOUGHT AND SOLD Features and Commercials Any Amount VVliJl Hjvc You? Send List. HEARD IISI THE LOBBIES Manager Gibson, of the Majestic, has the honor of installing the first automatic ticket selling machine in Elmira, N. Y. The Family Theatre, Elmira, N. Y., has just closed owing to lack of patronage. Mr. Walters, manager of the Amusu Theatre, Elmira, N. Y'., which has been playing all of the General Film Company's exclusive features in addition to others, announces that the policy of the house from now on will be a straight four-reel show. The price of admission will be reduced to five cents and only first-run pictures of the license service will be shown. Benjamin W. Tint and Isaac Bernstein, both of Brooklyn, N. Y'., have leased the Alhambra Theatre in Waterbury, Conn., from the owner, Benjamin Hausdorf. Mr. Tint was formerly manager of the Broadway Theatre here. They will run the theatre along metropolitan lines. George F. Rabbott of Waterbury, Conn., has entered the moving picture game. Mr. Rabbott has purchased the Alcazar Theatre in Naugatuck, five miles from Waterbury. Several new motion picture theatres have just opened in Baltimore. On Monday "The Good Time," Milton avenue, near Fayette street, began business under the management of The Good Time Amusement Company, controlled by the firm of Stump, Bowers & Gernhardt. It is running General Fjim Company service. Willi.im Albert on Monday opened the Airdome at 3505-3507 Eastern avenue. Highlandtown, Md., a suburb of Baltimore. "The Pimlico." on Park Heights avenue, a Baltimore suburban theatre, together with the Govans. also in the suburbs, are among the new picture theatres close to the city. The Princess Theatre at Meridian, Miss., the handsomest moving picture showhouse in this section of the country, has been sold for the sum of $55,550 to J. V. Ulmer. The sale was made at public auction, the property having heretofore belonged to S. H. Floyd, Sr. The property was sold to satisfy claims aggregating $40,000. Fifteen thousand dollars cash was also added as a minimum. It did not bring quite as much as was expected. It is considered good property and is leased as a moving picture house for ten years. The Powhattan Theatre and Airdome in Maplewood, Mo., has undergone extensive and expensive alterations preparatory to the summer season. The theatre has been overhauled from pit to dome, redecorated and two new machines have been installed by the Lears Theatre Supply Company of St. Louis. The long run of the photodrama, "Creation," which has been given to the public free at the Victoria Theatre, St. Louis, by the International Bible Students Society, has closed. The fourteenth and last program was given Sunday, May 3. The Best Theatre at Cherokee and Jefferson avenues, St. Louis, is running the Lucille Love series. Mary Fickford, King Baggot and Alice Joyce are holding down the three top rungs of the St. Louis Times' favorite player contest this week. The Hamilton Skydome, 5900 Easton avenue, St. Louis, is open for the summer season with a program of vaudeville and photoplays. Building Commissioner McKelvey announces that he will not grant licenses to any theatre in St. Louis unless the buildings are altered to comply with the building regulation of such structures. Manager Davidson has closed the Lyric theatre, Binghamton, N. Y^., and no announcement is forthcoming as to the future of the house. It is rumored, however, that Mr. David son has not retired from the picture game and that Binghamtonians have a surprise in store for them shortly. A. W. Newman's beautiful new Family Theatre in B.nghamton, N. Y., is fast nearing completion. Announcement of the opening, of new ideas involved in construction, will appear shortly. The Symphony and the Star theatres controlled by Messrs. Kohn and Kornblite now control the General Film program in Binghamton, N. Y. Both houses have eliminated the ten cent admission on week days, but charge ten cents on Sunday when they oflter a special program. Manager Van Wagoner of the Mew .\rcadi9 Theatre, Syracuse, N. Y., is working on a novel weekly program which he intends distributing tliroughout the neighborhood during the first part of every week and possibly on the Saturday preceeding. An enterprising printing establishment is soliciting ads for the program with the result that the house-organ will cost the theatre practically nothing. Manager Bert Gibbons of the Rex theatre, Syracuse, N. Y'., booked "Samson" for an entire week at his theatre, and prevailing prices were 15c and 25c. The Bijou Theatre on Gifford street, Syracuse, N. Y., has closed and the place has been remodeled for mercantile purposes. The Pretty Westcott Street Playhouse in Syracuse has also hung out the closed sign with no announcement of the future. 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