Motion Picture News (Jul-Aug 1916)

July i5, 1916 ACCESSORY NEWS SECTION 311 ILLINOIS On the corner of Xorth Clark street and Dole avenue, one block south of North Clark, Broadway and Diversey boulevard, Chicago, stands Covent Garden. For over a year it has been in the course of construction on a plot 125 X 250 feet, purchased by the Covent Garden Corporation from the Lehman estate. The front is of pressed brick, elaborately ornamented, and the interior contains a main auditorium and a balcony with a combined seating capacity of appro.ximately 2,600. The opening performance took place Thursday night, June 8, at 7:30, followed by one at 9:15 the same evening, and thereafter three times daily at 2:30, 7:30 and 9:15, all performances being at popular prices. The stage is of proportions adequate for circus performances, water carnivals and the largest of grand opera and musical comedy spectacles. A huge water stage, patterned on the lines of the one installed at the Xew York Hippodrome, is included in the stage equipment for spectacular water effects. A. Wurlitzer Hope-Jones orchestral organ, installed at a cost of nearly $75,000, and said to be the largest of its kind in the world, will be used exclusively for the interpretation of scores for the musical plays as well as for solo purposes. MICHIGAN C. Howard Crane has let the general contract for the Rialto Theatre Company for its theatre and store building on Gratiot, near Mt. Elliott avenues, Detroit. Pontiac is to have one of the largest and most attractive theatres in the State. It is to be named the Oakland theatre and will be erected by the Oakland Theater Company, of Detroit, on the southeast corner of Saginaw and Water streets. The building is designed bv C. Howard Crane, architect, of Detroit, who designed and planned the Majestic, Alhambra. Garden. Strand, Madison, Rialtb . and other handsome theatres in Detroit. It is expected the building will be completed and ready for occupancy by October 1. The building is to be fireproof and modem throughout. The front and part of the side wall will have surface of white terra cotta. On the ground floor there will be the theatre and four modern stores. The second floor will contain several suites of ofiSces. The basement is to have a separate entrance from the street and will contain space for a billiard room and barber shop. The theatre proper is to be built on the amphitheatre style, similar to the Majestic theatre, Detroit, and will have capacity for seating about 1,800. Inclines instead of stairwajs are to be used to reach the various levels, making every portion of the theatre easy of access. The building is open on all sides so that there will be exits in every direction at every point in the theatre. The stage will be large enough to produce almost any attraction and completely equipped in every detail. Helmar George has purchased the Central theatre at 20 Xorth Saginaw street. Pontiac, from F. J. StafiFord. Mr. George expects to rim the theatre in connection with his photography business, assuming the personal management of both enterprises. Mr. George will intro'duce a novelty at his playhouse in the shape of moving pictures of local events which will be reproduced soon after they take place. In addition to the feature of local pictures, he will bring to Pontiac such pictures as are produced by the Paramount, Keystone and Lasky companies. Serial pictures which are now running at the Central will be continued for two weeks, after which there will be an entire change of features. Contracts have been let for the construction of the new Delthe theatre, Mack and Helcomb avenues, Detroit, to seat 1200 people on the first floor. The building will be of brick and stone. The officers of the company are Frederick DeLodde, president ; Daniel T. Millville, vice-president ; Joseph Michaels, treasurer, and Peter Ewink. secretary. F. J. Stafford has sold the Central theatre, 20 Xorth Saginaw street, Pontiac, to Helmar George, who plans many improvements. He has already started a Pontiac Weekly, haWng purchased a motion picture camera and this is now a regular feature at the Central. Charles D. Wesch has sold the Virginia Park theatre, 1227 Hamilton Boulevard, Detroit, to F. S. Wadlaw. John R. O'Dell, owner of the Frontenac theatre, Frontenac and Harper avenues, Detroit, has purchased the Palace Theatre on Fourteenth street, formerly owned by Paul Hoffman. M. J. Conroy has bought the Countess theatre, 1370 West Fort street, Detroit. This house was formerly owned by Messrs. Caplan and Reuben. Otto Seestedt has sold the Theatorium theatre, 531 Baker street, Detroit, to Edward Poland. William A. Cassidy of Saginaw has just completed a building at Midland which contains a motion picture theatre seating five himdred. It opened Saturday, July 1. Sidney Jacobs is manager. A moving picture theatre is to be erected in Plymouth, plans for which are now bemg drawn by Varney and Varney. Detroit architects. A. J. Gilligham, owner of the Empire theatre. Detroit, and the Xational Film Company, returned July 1 from a ten days' trip through the east, his object being to get new ideas in theatre construction. Mr. Gilligham has an office at 189 Woodward avenue, and it is reported that he contemplates the erection of a large downtown theatre in the near future. The following theatres are now in course of construction in Detroit : Drury Lane. Woodward avenue, opening about July 10; the Regent, Woodward at Horton avenues ; the Ferry Field, Grand River at the Boulevard ; the Rialto, at Gratiot and Mt. Elliott avenues ; a theatre being erected for John Owen at Gratiot near Iroqouise avenue, and the Iris threatre, Chene street near the Grand Boulevard. MINNESOTA Tom Arthur is the new partner of Mr. Valleau, proprietor of the Cecil, at Albert Lea. They will show features exclusively. MISSOURI J. W. Holmes, who has leased the Empress theatre. Fifth and Joplin streets, Joplin, will open that house July 1 with a combined motion picture and vaudeville entertainment. The program will be changed each week as regards the vaudeville show and every day for the motion pictures which will be shown between performances. Between regular show hours, a thief entered the New James theatre in Shelbina and made awaj with the picture machine. The theft was not discovered until R M. Spaulding, one of the proprietors, went to the theatre in the afternoon to run oS the evening's picture. In order to give a show the managers were forced to borrow a machine from an adjoining town. In a fire that destroyed the main business section of New London and did nearly S40,000 damage, the moving picture theatre there was destroyed. It is probable that the house will be rebuilt. v. A. Klingberg, of the Colonial theatre, Kirksville, has announced that the house, one of the leading theatres in that part of the state for the past three years, will be closed. This is the result ot arrangements with the Princess and Gem theatre managements, and reduces the number of picture houses in Kirksville to three. The equipment of the Colonial will be mo-zedout of Kirksville. Mr. Klingberg has not vet located another picture house. OPERA CHAIRS Steel — Cast Iron Exceptional in Quality — Comfortable You are invited to make use of our Service Department. Send blue print or sketch for Free Seating Plan. If you are desirous of reseating, we can help j'ou dispose of old chairs. \\'rite for Catalog N. ^^'e manufacture Special Out-ofDoor Seating. STEEL FURNITURE CO. 1475 Buchanan Ave., S. W. Grand Rapids, Mich. 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