Motion Picture News (Apr-Jul 1915)

Mav 1. 1915. MOTION PICTURE NEWS S3 illllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllli NEW ENGLAND FILM MEN ORGANIZE THE Film Boosters' Association, comprising traveling salesmen and exchange men, representing film manufacturturing companies with branch agencies in New England, was organized in Bangor, Me., during the past week. The association is designed to safeguard the interests of film men traveling in this section of the country, and is a benevolent and fraternal organization. It is the only one of its kind in New England and film salesmen in this territory will be eligible to membership providing they have been in the business at least a year. It will provide a means of keeping in touch with one another, and is expected to be of considerable value. The association officers were elected as follows : William C. Green, Portland, president; Herman A. Slvovlos, Boston, first vice-president; Walter J. Davidson, Boston, second vice-president; J. J. Donnelly, Boston, treasurer; Mitchell Granby, Boston, secretary. Meetings will be held in different cities from time to time at the call of the president. The film men present represented the following companies : William C. Green, Mutual Film Corporation, Portland; J. J. Donnelly, George Kleine Film Company, Boston; Walter J. Davidson, Pathe Exchange, Boston ; Arthur A. Allen, of Bangor ; Sherman Feature Film Company, Boston; Mitchell Granby, Fox Film Corporation, Boston ; Herman A. Slvovlos, Boston ; American Feature Film Company, and others. Charles Green, of the Searsport Amusement Company, who was present at the meeting, was elected an honorary member. LEVISON GOES TO DALLAS FOR FOX FILM LEO F. LEVISON, formerly manager of the Pittsburgh branch of the World Film Corporation, has resigned and is now on his way to take up the managership of the Dallas, Texas, office of Fox Film Corporation. Mr. Levison's successor in the Pittsburgh office of the World Film Corporation is C. A. Meade, who goes to Pittsburgh from the west. He is expected to take up the work in a few days. HEAD OF THE ALLIANCE ON TOUR OF EXCHANGES MOORE MANAGES UNITED IN INDIANAPOLIS OW. MOORE, formerly of the Blache • Feature Service, Indianapolis, has been appointed manager of the United Film Renting Service, formerly known as Warner's Features. Mr. Moore assumed charge last Monday. He succeeds S. B. Kramer, who has gon° to Pittsburgh. ANDREW J. COBE, president of the Alliance Films Corporation, is now making a tour of the Alliance exchanges east of and including Duluth. Mr. Cobe since his departure from New York has met and conferred with Harry Schwalbe, the head of the Electric Film Exchange, of Philadelphia. Pittsburgh was the next exchange center visited, and together with A. A. Weiland, of the Northern Film Exchange, he studied conditions in that territory. Leaving Pittsburgh his in Atlanta of which P. T. Barbour is the head, controls the Alliance output in Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, North and South Carolina. Mr. Cobe will give considerable attention to the observation of film affairs below the Mason and Dixon line. Leaving Atlanta, Mr. Cobe will travel without break until he reaches New York. ANDREW J. COBE next stop was Chicago, where Felix Feist, the managing head of the Celebrated Players Film Company, met him. Mr. Cobe is still the guest of Mr. Feist and will probably stay in the Windy City for the best part of a week. The itinerary of his homeward trip includes a visit to Duluth, where he will meet J. F. Cubberly, the manager of the Zenith Exchange. Leaving here he will go directly to Des Moines, where the Alliance program is handled by the Des Moines Film Supply Company. Kansas City will next be visited, where A. D. Flintom, the president of the Monarch Feature Film Company, will be the host of Mr. Cobe. From Kansas City the Alliance head will go to Dallas .and there meet J. W. Hill, Jr., of the Alliance Film Company of Texas. ' Several very important matters concerning the Southern territory will be considered here, as well as in Atlanta, which is scheduled as Mr. Cobe's next stopping place. The Alliance Southern Film Exchange KLEINE OFFICES REPORT HEAVY BOOKING EVIDENCE of steadily increasing prosperity along the Pacific Coast is indicated by the heavy bookings reported by feature film companies. The Kleine office at Seattle has contracted with a number of theatres, large and small, to take all Kleine Features. The Orpheum theatre, Kalispell, Mont., plays twelve Kleine features, starting next week, while the Folly theatre, Eugene, Ore., starts a program of fourteen. Numerous small towns in Oregon and Washington are playing features heavily, regardless of the size o: the town or theatre. UNITED OPENS EXCHANGE IN TAMPA AND BUTTE GENERAL MANAGER R. W. SAVINI, of the United Program film service, with headquarters at Atlanta, Ga., reports the successful opening of a new branch exchange at Tampa, Fla., with offices at 315 Curry building. New United film service offices have also been opened in Butte, Mont., with a comfortable home in the "Post" building, under the guiding hand of J. C. Woolf, of Denver, Colo., with Manager R. C. Knox in direct charge, while Sidney B. Lust, of Washington, D. C, who is manager of the United in that city, is preparing for a t,rrand opening to celebrate moving to new quarters, at 903 E street N. W. KRITERION OPENS EXCHANGE AT TOLEDO ANOTHER Kriterion exchange will soon be opened. This new acquisition will be located at Toledo, Ohio, and will operate under the name of the Toledo Kriterion film service, with offices at 428 Huron street. This exchange will be run by Pcckham and Wesch, who are operating the Kriterion renting office at Detroit, Mich. The Toledo exchange will open on April 19. Peckham and Wesch are well known throughout that territory. They expect to soon open another branch at Grand Rapids, Mich.