Motion Picture News (Sept-Oct 1916)

2734 ACCESSORY NEWS SECTION Vol. 14. No. 17 Real Help for =the Box Office^^^ A high-grade lens equipment does more to swell box office receipts than any other feature — except quality films. After you get your good films make the utmost profit from them by using ^auscK '|omb Projection [enses Computed by America's greatest lens makers to give brilliant illumination and sharp details on the screen, to the corners of the image. Bausch & Lomb objectives are regularly supplied with Edison and Nicholas Power machines and are procurable at all exchanges. Bausch ^ Ipmb Optical @. 569 ST. PAUL STREET ROCHESTER, N.Y. New York Washington Chicago San Francisco Leading American Makers of Photographic and Ophthalmic Lenses, Microscopes, Projection Lanterns (Balopticons) , and other highgrade optical products. INFORMATION I am interested in Motion Picture Photography and would like Without Obligation on my part to obtain information on the equipment as checked CAMERAS CAMERA ATTACHMENTS TRIPODS LENSES FILM STOCK STUDIO LIGHTS LABORATORY APPARATUS DEVELOPING AND PRINTING (Tear out this advertisement and mail to MOTION PICTURE NEWS, 729 7th Avenue, New York.) Name Theatre Address MANY SALES OF THEATRES IN CALIFORNIA ARE REPORTED BY LEO RYAN ■"PHE following sales of theatres are reported by Leo R\an, A theatre broker of Los Angeles. J. G. Wehn sold the O'Keefe theatre at 5262 Moneta avenue to T. F. Cutter, and Wehn has purchased the Majestic theatre at Corona of E. J. Genereux. A. L. Gore, for seven years owner of the Metropolitan and Hidalgo theatres on north Main street, has sold the Metropolitan to Willard Wyatt, and the Hidalgo to Charles B. Reager. Upon tlie completion of these two deals, Mr. Gore purchased the Globe theatre at Jefiferson and Central of Judge A. P. Tugwell and J. H. Huber. Gore has also purchased the Park theatre at Fiftysecond and South Park avenue of S. R. Bojd. The Lyric theatre at Santa Ana has been sold by J. G. Xapp to S. H. Hulburt, and Xapp has purchased the Temple theatre at San Bernardino of Buffinger and Fields. Albert R. Webb is the new owner of the Playhouse theatre at 12341/2 West Seventh, this having been purchased of W. G. Burns. A. E. Fisher, for many years theatre manager in Los Angeles and San Francisco, who has conducted the Optic motion picture theatre at 533 S. Main for the past year, has sold this to William Matthews, who but recently came to Los Angeles from Xew York, ^latthews is a former manager for Proctor and Keith, and was later with Keith after they dissolved. L. F. Andrews has sold the Keystone theatre, 3864 W. Pico street to C. R. Savage. W. F. Taylor, who recently purchased the five hundred seat Portola theatre at 509 S. ^lain street, Los Angeles, of Pete Lasher, has taken possession. W. J. Fahey has sold the Joyland theatre on the pike at Long Beach, California, to S. H. Sweeney. The Xicholodeum, 2921 E. First street, formerly owned by C. P. Stone is now the property of Charles G. White. MANY MINUSA SCREENS PLACED IN SOUTH AND WEST THE Minusa Cine Products Company has captured a couple of the enemy trenches in the vicinit> of Colorado. Mr. Meaghan of the Strand theatre is so well pleased with the Minusa Gold Fibre built for the new Rialto theatre that he has placed an order to build another Gold Fibre, somewhat larger than the one furnished for the Rialto. The Western Supply Company of Omaha, Neb., has been selling a great many ^Minusa Gold Fibre screens recently. It reports the following : D. A. Donnelson, Central City. Xeb. ; Quirk and Quirk, Dale, la.; C. W. Bartlett. Fairbury, Xeb.; P. N. Ledau. Bartley, Neb. ; also another sale for a new theatre at Oakland City, la., theatre not having been named as yet. The Dallas branch of the Southern Theatre Equipment Company has placed Minusa Gold Fibre screens in the following theatres : Wichita theatre, Wichita Falls, Tex. ; Grand theatre, Amarillo, Tex., and 'Mr. Ed. Raymond, San Antonio, Tex. The Atlanta office of the Southern Theatre Equipment Company reports the sale of Minusa Gold Fibre screens to the following theatres during the past week : Imp theatre, Florence, S. C. ; G. L. Ratliff, Columbia, S. C. ; Crystal theatre. Dublin. Ga. ; Springer opera house, Columbus, Ga. ; Crystal theatre, Da>-tona, Fla. ; Capital theatre, Macon, Ga., and Griffin Amusement Company. Griffin, Ga. USED PICTURE MACHINES We have several bargains in used Machines, Powers, Simplex, and Motiograph, write for list and prices. Powers 6 and 6A. Mechanisms only from $50.00 up. Slightly used B. & H. Compensarcs, $25.00 each. EXHIBITOR'S SUPPLY CO., 503 Mailers BIdg., Chicago, III. TKe LigKt THat Won't Fail is the arc that comes from a White Light Converter. If you are using frail, unreliable, easily broken apparatus to deli\-er direct current to your arcs, you cannot investigate the Wagner Converter too soon. ' Send for Bulletin 10922. V^a&nerlB!k£tvi6Maav&eu^imiTii Compai^,3aiiitLoius Be sure to mention " MOTION PICTURE NEWS " when writing to advertisers