Motion Picture News (Jan-Feb 1916)

818 MOTION PICTURE NEWS Vol. 13. No. 6. Mayor Mitchells speech was a plea for preparedness in a military way, using as his text Mr. Blackton's previous references to what motion pictures have done and are doing to drive this lesson home. Dudley Field Malone took the same angle, and referred to specific pictures and the work they have done. He made a strong plea for the upholding of the President's hands in his plans for adequate national defense. Walter W. Irwin, the next speaker, confined himself to the gathering itself, and its meaning to the industry as a whole, as well as the principles for which the Board of Trade stands and the program it has outlined. "This celebrates the amalgamation and the cooperation of each branch of the industry, for progression, protection and promotion," he said. "Progression in the creation and maintenance of proper business ethics among ourselves ; progression in the development of the merit and the uplifting qualities of our product, so that we may be able to fully comply with our responsibility to an exacting public. "Protection against malice and jealousy; protection against intolerance born of ignorance, as demonstrated by legalized censorship. There is only one form of censorship to which we will submit, the censorship of public opinion, the only censorship consistent with American freedom, without a reversal of the United States constitution. "Confidence of Exhibitors Necessary" — Irwin "We welcome and honor the confidence of the thinking and discerning public ; we want the confidence of the exhibitors, we must have their confidence in full measure, for unless we possess it, we will not be able to obtain their co-operation, and without their co-operation much of our most important effort will come to naught. "We seek their membership, we welcome them; through their membership we will obtain their co-operation not only for protection, but because they are the best people to furnish us with reliable information of the higher standards constantly demanded by an exacting public. "This month in Washington, in opposing the un-American censorship bill, the large body of exhibitors present was of great assistance ; at least equal to that furnished by any other branch of the industry. We are proud of our industry, proud of its success, proud of its moral standards. "Our responsibility we must now feel to be the heavier by reason of the recognition and consideration which has been shown to us tonight by the Chief Magistrate of this country." Edwin Markham told of some of his experiences with pictures and picture people, and then J. W. Binder, executive secretary of the Board of Trade spoke of the aims and ambitions of the organization. He said : Binder Speaks on Past and Future of Industry "I have a heart full of matter that I would like to talk to you about, about this great industry of ours, an industry which is so dear to me, its brilliant future, its brilliant past. I would like to stand here for an hour, and tell you some of the stories I have heard of the people who made this industry, who were responsible for its beginning ; of their tremendous struggles against tremendous odds ; how they triumphed over those odds and how they are today the honored heads of great institutions. "Those stories must be told at the same time. And one of the things the Motion Picture Board of Trade is attempting to do today is to have that vast material — interesting human interest material — gathered up in a book of about four or five hundred pages to be written by one of the greatest writers in the country, to tell this wonderful story of the motion picture indusry. "I simply want to say that this dinner, the first dinner of the Motion Picture Board of Trade of America, a lusty infant of only four months old, is a fair semblance of what will be in the future ; because, ladies and gentlemen, this motion picture industry in which we are engaged and which we so dearly love, is but struggling to express itself at the present time." A complete list of those present is given here : Mrs. Nellie Anderson, N. Anderson, L. W. Atwater, W. W. Atkinson, Herbert B. Atha, Mrs. Herbert B. Atha, Charles Abrams, J. J. Allen, J. Allen, Carl Anderson. Hunter Bennett, C. E. Beecroft, Mrs. J. Stuart Blackton, Rex Beach, Belle Bruce, George Baker, Harold Bolster, Graham Baker, Capt. K. A. Bartlett, Miss Carolyn Bertch, Jack Brawn, Louise Beaudet, Van Dyke Brooke, Fred 3, Beecroft, Eugene V. Brewster, Frank G. Earry, Mrs. Frank G. Barry, Harry D. Brewster, Leon J. Bamberger, George Balsdon, Fulton Brylavski, Mrs, George Blaisdell, Mr. Brown, Raymond S. Binder, Mrs. J. W. Binder, F. J. Bird, Wiliam Barry, J. A. Berst, George F. Blaisdell, Mrs. George F, Blaisdell, King Baggot, Albert H. T. Bauzhaf, George L. Barrows, Harry Benham, Mrs. Harry Benham, Whitman Bennett, Mr. Benton, Mrs. Benton, Charles Berner, Mrs. Charles Berner, Horace Boucher, Joe Brandt, William Brandt, Mrs. William Brandt, J. E, Brulatour, Mr. Burns, J. F. Byrnes, C. T. Bittner, William Bigall, L. F. Blumenthal, Mr. Henry Birrell, Alma Bertsch, Marguerite Bertsch, Mrs. Henry Birrell. Naomi Childers, Howard Chandler Christy, Ethel Corcoran, F. K. Cannock, Charles R. Condon, Merritt Crawford, Harry J. Cohn, Charles T. Cahill, Paul H. Cromelin, John A. B. Cromelin, S. S. Cassard, J. F. Coufal, Clarence J. Caine, H, B, Coles, J. P. Chalmers, J, F. Chalmers, Miss E. J. Chalmers, Miss Katherine F, Carter, V. R. Carrick, Mrs. V, R. Carrick, Louis A. Cassanova, Robert W. Chambers, Mrs. Robert W. Chambers, Harvey A. Cochrane, Mrs. Harvey A. Cochrane, Mrs. Bainbridge Colby, George Cooke, R. H. Cochrane, Mrs. R. H. Cochrane, P. D. Cochrane, Mrs. P. D. Cochrane, Harry Cohn, Jack Cohn, Mrs. Jack Cohn, Morton R. Cross, Mrs. Harry A. Cochrane, Mr. M. B. Clausen, Mrs. M. B. Clausen, Mrs. Katherine Carter, R, T. Chatterton, Mr. Harry A. Cochrane. Frank Daniels, Mrs. B. S. Daniels, Harry Davenport, Edward L. Dohlny, Mrs. Edward L. Dohlny, W. H. Donaldson, Mrs. W. H. Donaldson, C. W. Deming, E. E. DeHart, W. A. Douglas, Lynde Denig, A. 0. Dillenbeck, William Devereau, Basil Dickey, Mrs. Basil Dickey, G. K. Dillenback, Mark M. Dintenfass, E. B. Dunn. Joseph W. Engel, Dr. William Engel, John A. Eckert, Edward Earl, Mrs. Edward Earl, M. H. Ellison, Miss M. Efflnger, Arthur Edson, H. T. Edwards, Mrs. H. T. Edwards, J. A. Eslow, Mrs. J. A. Eslow. Mrs. S. M. Field, Mr. Samuel M. Field, Mr, J. H. Finn, Miss Farrin, Felix S. Feist. Mrs. Felix S. Feist, R* T. Furman, John C. Flinn, Hugh Ford, Arthur S. Friend, Daniel Frohman, Kyran A. Fisher, M. Fischler. Mr. J. C. Graham, R. G. Garrick. L. J. Gasnier, John W. Grey, J. E. Graef, Thomas Geistweit, Mrs. Thomas Geistweit, Miss Edith Geistweit, Frederick E. Gunnison, Lambert Guenther, W. C. Graham, Jesse J. Goldberg, Walter E. Greene, Josph Golden, E. Kendall Gillett. Mrs. E. Kendall Gillett, H. Gainsborg, Lee Gainsborg, Paul Gulick, Miss Dorothy Gibson, Philip Gleichman, Mrs. Philip Gleichman, Charles W. Goddard, Mrs. Charles W. Goddard, Lew Golden, Samuel B. Goldfish, Ben Goetz, Mrs. M. Goldsmith, Earl Gulick, Paul Gulick. C. B. Henkel, David Horsley, Mrs. Jewell Hunt, William Humphrey, Mrs. William Humphrey, E. H. Harris, Guy L. Harrington, Miss Florence Herrington, Miss E. M. Heinemann, Mrs. Mary E. Hewitt, George Herrington, Miss Clara Herrington, Lewis Hooper, F. F. Hartich, M. L. Haggerty, J. H. Hallberg, Mrs. J. H. Hallberg, E. D. Horkheimer, C. B, Harmon, Mrs. Alfred Hanan, Alfred Hanan, Charles N. Harding, Harry S. Harkness, William Hilkemeier, Fred Hawley, Edgar B. Hattrick, Miss Edna Harris, Lucius J. Henderson, Mrs. Lucius J. Henderson, Nathan Hirsh, Mrs. Nathan Hirsh, Kenneth Hodkinson, W. W. Hodkinson, Hugh Hoffman, M. H. Hoffman, Mrs. M. H. Hoffman, E. J. Hudson. Mrs. Walter W. Irwin, Ralph Ince, Mrs. Ralph Ince. Mrs, A. E. Jones, A. E. Jones, Miss Jones, D, M. Jones, Owen Johnson, Mrs. Owen Johnson, Eulalie Jensen, Arthur James, Herman Jans, Arthur Jacobs, William A, Johnston, Mrs. William A. Johnston, George H. Jordan. Joseph Kilgour, Maxwell Karger, Allen Kander, Arthur Kane, A. A. Kaufman, George Kean, Charles Kessell, Dorothy Kelly, Stanley Kingsbury, Harley C. Knowles, E. W. Kramer, S. B. Kramer, Otto Krauss, Mr. G. Koenigswald, Mrs. G. Koenigswald, Mr. Arthur Leslie. Miss Florence LaBadie, Capt. Harry Lambart, Rogers Lytton, Edwin M. La Roche, D. H. Lester, W. E. Lundgren, A. J. Lang, Edmund Lawrence, Harris Merton Lyon, Mrs. Carl Laemmle, Tracy H. Lewis. Al Lichtman, Mrs. Ad Lichtman, Julien Loeb, Mrs. Julien Loeb, J. Lamy, H. C. Levine, Otto Lederer, Siegmund Lubin. Eugene Mullin, Roy L. McCardell, Mrs. Dudley Field Malone, Mrs. Edwin Markham, Cleveland Moffett, Mrs. Hudson Maxim, Antonio Moreno, Mary Maurice, Harry Morey, Elmer Macintosh, James Morrison, Gary McGarry, John H. McCooey, Miss Estelle J. Murphy, Charles Maddock, Felix Malitz, Joseph Miles, E. L. Masters, R. W. MacFarland, Lesley Mason, Mr. Mayelle, A. MacArthur, John F. Miller, Miss Violet Mersereau, Mrs. Mersereau, Claude MacGowan, Mrs. Edward A. MacManus, J, J. McCarthy, Mrs. Harry Maillard, Hy. Mayer, R. 0. Moon, Matt Moore, P. J. Morgan, Mrs. P. J. Morgan, Harry Myers, J. A. Milligan, Aubrey Mittenthal, Harry Mittenthal, John Miller, H. S. McLeod, Kenneth Macgowan, W. J. Moore, J. F. McElveen, Mrs. Tom Moore, Mr. Tom Mcore. Virginia Norden, Wilfred North, Mr. Nouberg, Walter H. Norden. Mr. L. N. Olmstead, Lee A. Ochs, Evart Overton, Ingvald C. Oes, Henry Obstfield, Walton W. O'Hara, Mrs. Walton W. O'Hara, William Oldknow, Henry Otto, Mr. David Picker, Mrs. David Picker, H. H. Poppe, A. Popini, Mrs. V. B, Prophet, Kate Price, P. A. Parsons, Carl H. Pierce, Mrs. Carl H. Pierce, Paul Panzier, Samuel Paquin, Raymond Pawley, F, G. Perkins, P. A. Powers. L. J. Rubinstein, Mrs. L. J. Rubinstein, Terry Ramsaye, J. B. Ritchey, A. F. Rock, Mrs. A. F. Rock, Charles Richman, Ronald A. Reader, I. T. Rogers, B. A. Rolfe, S. L. Rothapfel, Mrs. S. L. Rothapfel, Harry L. Reichenbach, Mrs. Harry L. Reichenbach, M. Ramirez-Torres, Saul E. Rogers, Frank H. Richardson, L. J. Reynolds, Mrs. L. J. Reynolds, Harry Rapf, Mrs. Harry Rapf, Arthur B. Reeve, Mrs. Arthur B. Reeve, John M. Riehle, Edward Roskam, Mrs. Edward Reskam, Joe Rosenthal, Watterson R. Rothacker, Mrs. Watterson R. Rothacker, Nat W. Rothstein. Carl F. Siemon, Mr. P. B. S. Smith, Mrs. P. B. S. Smith, Mr. D. J. Sullivan, Mrs. D. J. Sullivan, Mrs. W. E. Shallenberger, G. H. Sheldon, Penrhyn Stanlaws, Mrs. William Cummings Storey, Victor Smith, Mrs. Victor Smith, William Shea, S. M. Spedon, William Stuart, Miss Mary Stuart. Anita Stewart, Mrs. M. Stewart, Paul Scardon, Max Spiegel, Edward Spiegel, Edward M. Saunders, Charles K. Stern, William Steiner, Victor Shapiro, A. I. Siegel, R. B. Simonson, Rufus Steele, Mrs. Rufus Steele. J. F. Skerritt, W. C. Smith, Frederick Stine, Mrs. Frederick Stine, George B. Seitz, Mrs. Rufus Steele, George A. Smith, William M. Seabury. Mrs. William M. Seabury, Peter Schmid, Winfield R. Sheehan, Robert J. Shores, Mrs. Robert J. Shores, R. Sanborn, E. E. Schauer, B, P. Sohauer, J. M. Shear, F. W. Singhi, Edgar Sisson, Mrs. Edgar Sisson, Arthur M. Smallwood, Miss Agnes Smith, Miss Sarah Smith, Harry G. Sommers, Julius Stern. Mr. Edwin Thanhouser, Mrs. Edwin Thanhouser, T. H. Thompson, Rose Tapley, Harvey F. Thew, W. C. Toomey, Albert Tuchman, Mr. Samuel Trigger, E. A. Turner, Theodore Uhlemann. Mr. F. E. Van Amberg, F, E. Van Amberg, Louis Joseph Vance, Mrs. Louis Joseph Vance, Wally Van. Dr. Thurston S. Welton, Mrs. Thurston S. Welton, C. W. White, H. W. Williams, Mrs. C. J. Williams. C. J. Williams, Earle Williams, Lillian Walker, Dr. J. Victor Wilson, Arthur S. Whyte, A. C. Wyckoff, James M. Wood, Miss Margaret E. M. Wood, H. A. Wyckoft0, Mrs. H. A. Wyckoff. Thomas G. Wiley, H. E. Willsie, Mrs. Honora Willsie. Lloyd D. Willis, John Wylie, John Ward, Alfred Wattenberg, Mrs. Alfred Wattenberg. Dickson Watts, Walter Weinsteni, Ben Wells, Leo Wharton, Mrs. Leo Wharton, H. C. Weir, Mrs. H. C. Weir, William Welsh, Mrs. William Welsh, Edward C. White, Ben Wilson. Harry Wolff, Mrs. Harry Wolff, Otis F. Wood, George White, E. 0. Weinberg. M. Zierler, Adolph Zukor.