Motion Picture News (Jul-Oct 1915)

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92 MOTION PICTURE NEWS Vol. 12. No. 6. Roadmen ! Send us your subscription and your route list from time to time. We will have a copy of Motion Picture News waiting for you each week in the different towns you make. This offer is made to you because of numerous requests from travelling representatives of the distributing companies for the same convenience. They write us that they "cannot work without Motion Picture News." Rates, 6 months, $ 1 ; 12 months, $2. Mailed copies beat the news stands everywhere from one to three days. Motion Picture News 220 West 42nd St. New York MOTION PICTURE NEWS.— Send my copies as per the following route. Issue mailed from New York On Aug. 12 to On Aug. On Aug, 26 to On Sept. On Sept. 9 to Signed ing as Elsie. Others in the cast are Charles Clary, F. A. Turner, Everett Flynn and William A. Lowery. "Father Love." (Komic. Sun., Aug. 8.) Satire is the keenest form of comedy, and this is one reel of delightful satire, making in all one of the really funny pictures of the season. Feminism is raised to the nth power, and all the positions, from husband and club manager, to kitchen slave are reversed. Fay Tincher is featured as a dashing chauffeur, who seeks to elope with the neglected husband but whose plans are checked by the strength of "father love." The scenic effects are striking, and able support is given by Frank Darien, Chester Withey and Olga Grey. The producer, Edward Dillon, has made a great success of this picture. "Jimmy on the Job." (Beauty. Tues., Aug. 10.) — This comedy drama contains both laughs and thrills. The former are supplied by the experiences of a hayseed in a city natatorium chaperoned by his jealous wife, while the thrills are furnished by an exciting auto chase and a subsequent fight. The farmer and his wife are rescued from some city "con" men by a young automobile salesman while he is demonstrating his car to a pretty prospectie buyer. "Comrades Three." (American. Wed., Aug. 11.) — A boy escaped from an orphan asylum, a young man masquerading as a tramp and a girl m man's attire, who has fled from her home in the tenement district, run across one another, thus supplying the title The young man saves the girl from the insults of a band of real hobos at the expense of being severely beaten. The girl nurses his wounds and with the little orphan boy they return to the young man's home where everything ends happily. Ed Coxen and Winifred Greenwood are the principals. PA THE EXCHANGE INC. "The Romance of Elaine, No. 33." (Pathe. Two reels.) — "The Searchlight Gun," is the title of this chapter of Elaine's thrilling experiences. The weapon, the invention of the mysterious professor, is sent to Elaine, anonymously, and she finds it of the greatest service in protecting herself from the gang of foreign agents who are at work mining New York harbor. A bomb is prepared for her by the gang, and when they find she has discovered it prematurely and taken it to Prof. Arnold, on board his yacht, they attempt to destroy the party by a torpedo fired from a submarine. The torpedo goes true to its mark, and the yacht is blown to bits, but Elaine and her companions have previously gotten away in a launch. An explosion, which blows a pursuing automobile over a lofty cliff is one of the thrills with which this chapter is crowded. "Pathe News, No. 61." (Pathe.) — Parades and winners at the Monmouth County Horse Show, Lone Branch ; comedy at the outing of the Boston Chamber of Commerce ; the Tiddle-de-wink, a unique, 19-foot motor boat, travelling at sixty miles an hour on the Sound, off Stamford; the suppression of abbreviated bathing suits at Atlantic City; striking war pictures, showing the French-Moorish Zouaves in their sandbag trenches, and Lord Kitchener reviewing crack regiments in London; the launch of a submarine, built for Great Britain, at Quincy, Mass "Amateur Night." (Starlight.) — Heine and Louie get in over their depth when they take up a course at Prof. Punch's gymnasium, and are matched up for a wrestling bout. In the general fight which follows the discovery of their incapacity, the gymnasium is thoroughly wrecked, and Heinie and Louie are glad to escape with such of their clothes as they can find and dress themselves in the forest. James Aubrey and Walter Kendig play the leading parts. "The Old He de France," and "Native Venders of Calcutta." (Pathe. Split reel.) — The former is a collection of beautiful color pictures taken along the line of the German advance on Paris last summer. The cathedrals of Beauvais and Senlis, the chateau of Pierrefonds, and striking landscapes show the beauties of the land before the hand of war was laid upon it, and pictures taken after the German tide had been swept back show the ruin left in its wake. On the same reel are lively scenes in the busiest streets of Calcutta, the whole making an attractive and interesting reel. "Soaking the Clothes." (Phunphilms.) — This release is unusually liberal with its laughs. Two youths deposit their "rolls" with a more sedate friend before going out to see the town, and the guardian sews the • money up in the lining of his coat. Needing currency in a hurry, the two return, and finding their friend asleep, seize his clothes and pawn them. The discovery of the loss of the money starts an exciting chase, which ends in its final recovery. "Pathe News, No. 60." — Scenes connected with the Eastland disaster; Pathe's American fashions; war news; and exposition scenes are the main events of this reel. "Pathe News, No. 61." — There is an unusual number of good scenes concerning the European war in this number, besides several domestic events of interest. LATE GENERAL FILM REVIEWS "The Face in the Mirror." (Selig. Two reels. Mon., Aug. 9.) — A drama of intense interest, showing how a clever society crook after impersonating an absent guest at a reception, is caught by the husband while he is robbing the hostess in her bed-room. The thief tries to compromise the wife, but after a struggle with her husband, his true identity is discovered. A good cast is headed by Stella Razeto, Lamar Johnstone and Joe King. "The . Gold Dust and the Squaw." (Selig. Tues., Aug. 10.) — An interesting and photographically perfect western picture which contains the exciting rescue of a girl who has fallen off a steep cliff. A treacherous partner, who attempts to steal the gold taken from a rich claim, meets his just death. "When Love is Mocked." (Selfg. Three reels. Tues., Aug. 12.) — Reviewed at length in another part of this issue. "The Orang-Outang." (Selig. Sat., Aug. 14.) — An exciting story with a punch made unusually interesting by the acting of a very human orang-outang. The plot hinges upon the murder of which the orang-outang is apparently guilty. The blame is placed upon the orang-outang's master until the real murderer, a third person, confesses and the mystery is cleared up. Edith Tohnson is seen in this picture. CORPORATION STATISTICS The following incorporations, increases or decreases in capital stock and dissolutions have been recorded by the Secretaries of State: At Dover, Del.: GERMANTOWN THEATRE COMPANY, Philadelphia; $5,000. JOSE FEATURE FILM CORPORATION; $1,000,000; to manufacture moving-picture films of all kinds. Incorporators: local Wilmington, Del., parties, Herbert E. Latter, Norman P. Coffin, Clement M. Egner. At Richmond, Va.: VIRGINIA FEATURE FILM COMPANY, INC., Richmond; maximum, $100,000; minimum, $25,000; par value, $1. To manufacture films and produce motion picture shows. W. W. Sale, president; Greenhow Johnston, vice-president; G. H. Tompkins, secretary and treasurer; all of Richmond. At Harrisburg, Pa.: EAST LIBERTY THEATRE COMPANY, Pittsburgh. Capital stock increased from $125,000 to $150,000. At Indianapolis, Ind. : ST. JOSEPH VALLEY THEATRE COMPANY, South Bend; capital, $10,000. To operate amusement places. Directors: T. Sosnoski, R. Codd, W. P. Furey. At Albany, N. Y. : THE SCENOGRAPH FEATURE FILM CO., INC., New York. — Motion pictures. Capital, $100,000. Directors: Ira McCool, Walter M. Went worth and Julius A. Koch, Jr., Hastings, N. Y. OSONA CORPORATION, New York.— Motion pictures. Capital. $500. Directors : George S. Parsons, Kathryn Short, 17 West 38th street, New York City ; John F. Byron, Evanston, 111. THE BARRYMACOONLAND FILM CO., Mt. Vernon. — Capital, $50,000. Directors: Annie I. McCoonland, Lorenzo B. Vanderhof and Arthur J. McCarter, 246 East Sidney aenue, Mt. PUSS-PUSS AMUSEMENT CO., New York. — General theatricals and motion pictures. Capital, $1,000. Directors : Aaron Hoffman, Bobbv North, Jean Bedow, 223 West 45th street, New York City MIDWOOD THEATRE. INC., New York.— Motion pictures. Capital $2,000. Directors : Louis Goldberg, Toseph L. Sklah and Joseph C. Harris, 242 East 34th street, New York City. DAYTON OPERATING CORPORATION, New York. — Motion pictures and theatricals. Capital, $1,500. Directors: Lawrence J. Goloe, Arthur L. Robertson and Harry W. Gogler, 1564 Broadway,_ New York City. Stereoptic Development Co., New York. — To manufacture motion pictures. Capital, $50,000. Directors: B. Frank Boos, W. T. Brown and Paul T. Davis, 52 William street, New York City.