Motion Picture News (Jul-Oct 1914)

34 THE MOTION PICTURE NEWS" Bosworth Ready With New London Film "./V ^ ^*^y^s^y the North," a six reel feature production by Bosworth, Inc., taken from Jack London's story, is to be released September 3. This is one of a collection of stories written by Mr. London called "The Son of the Wolf." "Naass" and "Unga" — the last of the mines, traces his bride after innumerable hardships through Alaska to San Francisco. There he learns that Axel and Unga left the day before for the Klondike. With a bait with which to trap Axel in the shape of a map leading to a wonderful mine in the unknown mountains HOBART BOSWORTH AS NAASS IN "AN ODYSSEY OF THE NORTH" (BOSWORTH, INC., FEATURE) WAR FILMS DOUBLE PITTSBURGH RECEIPTS Special to The Motion Picture News Pittsburgh, Sept. 3. jMayer Silverman, of the Liberty Film Renting Company, has just received a war film said to be authentic views of the present great war in Europe. Good paper has been prepared for it and it should coin money in this section. The Columbia Theatre, in Fifth avenue, ran a war picture last week and filled their house to the doors all day long. It was not a picture of the present war, but it made a hit in this city and a record-breaking day in the receipts was reported. The Downtown Cameraphone Theatre, in Fifth avenue, also had a war picture of last week, and it made the receipts of the house almost double for the day's business. These two theatres are wide awake to the demands of their patrons and are trying to secure other pictures of wars regardless of where they have been taken. $100,000 ST. LOUIS THEATRE OPENS Special to The Motion Picture News St. Louis, Sept. 3. The new $100,000 Lindell Theatre, Grand avenue and Hebert street, opened recently for motion picture performances. Fifty Boy Scouts from Bryan Hill School paraded before the opening and Mayor Henry W. Kiel spoke. The theatre has a seating capacity of 2,000 persons. It has a modern cooling system for summer and a heating and ventilating plant. It is a few blocks from the old Lindell Park and adjoins the old Lindell tract. It is owned by the Great Northern Amusement Company. Officers of the company are: J. M. Eberling, president; F. W. Linn, vice-president; Herman Hannibal, secretary, and Dr. D. A. Thompson, treasurer. The officers with Gustav Hartkopf and Walter A. Ehrler constitute the Board of Directors. The theatre is under the management of Arthur W. Smith. WILL SCREEN ORIGINAL LOCALE A feature of the realism which the California Motion Picture Corporation has incorporated in its film dramatization of Bret Harte's "Salomy Jane" will be a • rejuvenation of Hang Town, a typical early mining camp of the Far West. The settlement in the '40s and the '50s teemed with all the outlawry, that called the celebrated vigilantes into existence. Under more modern nomenclature Hang Town has become Placerville. descendants of two white men, shipwrecked at an Eskimo village — on the day of their wedding are rudely separated. Unga is stolen by Axel Gunderson, a sea captain. Remembering only the appeal in the eyes of his sweetheart, Naass starts out in search of her, follows the pair as best he can from city to city until a clue leads to the sealing grounds. Here he is captured by Russians in waters forbidden to sealers and sent to Siberia. LIndaunted, he escapes from the salt of the interior of that country given him by a dying prospector ; he starts out. At Dawson the long search is ended. He overtakes the pair but they do not remember him and he easily persuades them to go with him in search of the mine. Then he destroys the caches for the return trip, kills the dogs, and watches with the exultation of the just avenger Axel's death from starvation and frost. Then when death is very near himself and Unga, he reveals his identity. Studios of Favorite Players Inspected Fifteen Motor from Los Angeles to well, Designer of Special to The Motion Picture News Los Angeles, Aug. 31. A PARTY of fifteen guests inspected the studios of the Favorite Players Film Company, which were designed by Carlyle Blackwell and constructed under his personal supervision. The new studios at Edendale consist of a spacious building that will contain every known device for turning out the best pictures possible. The factory building is one hundred feet wide by sixty feet deep, two stories high, and the entire construction is of brick and concrete, making it absolutely fireproof. Edendale, Guests of Carlyle Blackthe Company's Plant One million feet of reel a week is the capacity of this factory. The interior of the studios are forty feet high and are almost enclosed by plain plate glass. The dressing rooms, etc., are along the side of the studio. A tank twenty-five feet wide is constructed in the floor for water and trap scenes. The very latest electrical devices for electric lighting have been installed. The studios met with the highest praise from Mr. Blackwell's guests, and after completing their inspection, the party motored back to Los Angeles, where a tasteful luncheon was served.