Motion Picture News (Jul-Aug 1916)

396 MOTION PICTURE NEWS Vol. 14. No. 3 of Harry L. Reichenbach. The World staff has its headquarters at the Blackstone Hotel, where Miss Brady is giving talks to screen-struck girls, under the auspices of the Chicago Herald. On July 14, the Wisconsin Exhibitors' League tenders Miss Brady a banquet at the Wisconsin Hotel, Milwaukee, and on July 17, Alice Brady Day at the Exposition, the Chicago Reel Fellows stage a ball in her honor. The \A'orld Film booth at the Exposition is an attractive summer garden. Paramount headquarters are also established at the Blackstone, where the company's publicity and advertising men are holding a three days' session with the publicity men of the twenty-two Paramount exchanges to discuss the launching of an extensive publicity campaign. Saturday will be Paramount Day at the Exposition, and Adolph Zukor, president of the newly-formed Famous Players-Lasky Corporation will deliver an address. Some of Paramount's stars are in attendance, and also the following officials : Hiram Abrams, William L. Sherry, Jesse L. Lasky, James Steele, Samuel Goldfish, and Fred C. Garbutt. The publicity delegation includes Wallace Thompson, Ben Schulberg, John C. Flinn, and Carl H. Pierce. Clara Kimball Young, star of the film corporation bearing her name, is a specially honored guest, Thursday having been set aside as Clara Kimball Young Day. Miss Young is accompanied by Mr. "and Mrs. Lewis J. Selznick and a number of business representatives. The management of the Chicago Convention is in the hands of Illinois branch No. 2 of the Motion Picture Exhibitors' League of America. This local organization was formed in April, 1911, four months before the birth of the National League in Cleveland. Illinois branch No. 2 has taken an active part in the affairs of the big league from the beginning. Disturbed by trade abuses that no one could correct singlehanded, thirty-three Chicago exhibitors met informally in Stillson's Restaurant five years ago. Their purpose was to band together for their mutual interest. C. A. Anderson was elected temporary president of the embryo league. Other Chicago managers were immediately interested in the movement, and so when the league met for its first regular election, the membership was already sizable. The first officers of branch No. 2 were: George Henry, president; C. A. Anderson, vice-president ; William J. Sweeney, treasurer ; Samuel Katz, secretary, and John A. Bell, recording secretary. In 1912 George Henry was elected president ; in 1913, Julius A. Alcock; 1914, Robert R. Levy, and the present head is George Henry. Mr. Sweeney has been treasurer since the founding of the league, and Sidney Smith has been chosen secretary for the past four years. For three years this Illinois branch has maintained offices in the Masonic Temple Building. There local exhibitors can consult up-to-the-minute records of all films released, list of exhibitors in other cities, any of the trade journals, in fact any information that will benefit exhibitors is kept on file in the league headquarters. The membership has increased to 350. This large body of picture men regularly meets once a month, instead of every other month, as formerly. Special meetings and luncheons are also frequently held. The Chicago league offers its five years' achievement as an example of what intelligent co-operation can accomplish. Innumerable bills inimical to the industry have been killed by committees appointed by the league. In 1911 a bill was introduced in the City Council to force all picture shows out of wooden buildings with sixty days. Since this would be a great hardship for the exhibitors, the league had the time limit extended to one year. The league prevented the passage of the ordinance that would keep all persons under sixteen years of age out of picture theatres. The league has maintained an unremitting fight against censorship. The league has effected better relations with the operator's unions and with the exchanges. It has reduced the cost of posters. It has installed public stencil cutting machines so that exhibitors can get announcement slides at cost. It protects the manager and exchange from losing film permits, by having the exhibitor sign a receipt for them. In hundreds of ways the league has justified its existence by systematizing and regulating the once chaotic business of picture exhibiting. The Illinois branch No. 2 is a worthy organization to perform the difficult task of conducting a national convention. When the visiting delegates begin pouring into the Coliseum, they will see how well their hosts have performed their duty. ■ |iiiiiiiiiiinuiiiiiiiiiiiiuiuiiiiiuiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuiiiiiiiiiiiiijiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii^ 1 PLACES OF INTEREST TO FILM MEN IN CHICAGO— HOW TO REACH THEM FROM THE LOOP 1 7A' THE LOOP De Vry Corporation factory and shoivroom (portable projectors), 117 No. Fifth Avenue E. E. Fulton (supplies), 154 W. Lake Street Kleine Optical (supplies), 166 No. State Street Mailers Building. The home of thirty exchanges and accessory dealers, 5 So. Wabash Avenue Mid-West Theatre Supply (supplies), 14 W. Washington Street LARGER DOWNTOWN PICTURE THEATRES Castle, State Street, near Madison Colonial, Randolph Street, near Dearborn Fine Arts, Michigan Avenue, near Van Buren La Salle, 110 W. Madison Street Orchestra Hall, Michigan Avenue, between Adams and Jackson Orpheum, State Street, near Monroe Strand, Seventh Street and Wabash Avenue Studebaker, Michigan Avenue, near Van Buren V. L. S. E., 624 So. Michigan Avenue OUTSIDE THE "LOOP" American Film Laboratories, 6227 Broadway. Evanston express. Northwestern Elevated, to Granville station. Walk one block west and one block north Bell and Howell (M. P. apparatus), 1803 Larchmont Avenue. Wilson Avenue Express, Northwestern Elevated, to Belmont station. Change for Ravenswood Local, getting out at Irving Park station. Walk one block south Enterprise Optical Factory (motiograph projector), 564 W. Randolph Street. Any surface car going over the river on Randolph Street. Get off at Clinton Street Essanay Studios and Laboratories, 1333 Argyle Street. Evanston express, Northwestern Elevated, to Argyle Station. Walk one block west, half a block south, block and a half west Monarch Film Producing Studios, 2332 No. California Avenue. Logan Square express. Metropolitan Elevated, to California station. Walk one block north Motion Picture Scops Factory and Shoivroom (portable projectors), 565 W. Washington Street. Take any car going over the river on Washington Street. Get off at Clinton Street Northwestern Electric Factory (Martin rotarj' converter), 613 W. Adams Street. Any car going over the river on Adams Street. Get off at Jefferson Street. Optigraph Factory (portable projector). Same building as Enterprise Optical. Selig Studios and Laboratories, 3901 Western Avenue. Take west-bound Madison Street car as far as Western Avenue. Change for north-bound car going as far as Irving Park Boulevard. Rothacker Studios and Laboratories, 1331 Diversey Park Boulevard. Any north-bound Northwestern Elevated Local to Diversey Parkway station; walk five blocks west. Or Lincoln Avenue surface car, get off Diversey Parkway, and walk three blocks west. Or Southport Avenue surface car to Diversey Parkway, and walk onequarter block east. Schustek M. P. Camera Factory, 224 W. Illinois Street. Take any surface car going north over the river on Fifth Avenue. Get off at Illinois Street. Sosman and Landis Studios (stage settings), 417 So. Clinton Street. Any surface car going west over the river on Van Buren. Get off at Clinton Street, walk one-quarter block south. Universal M. P. Camera Factory, 557 W. Jackson Boulevard. Any surface car going over the river west on Adams. Get off at Clinton Street and walk one block south. U. S. Cinematograph Factory and Salesroom (M. P. apparatus), 557 W. Jackson Boulevard. Same building as Universal Camera. ^iiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii^