Motion Picture News (Nov-Dec 1917)

4152 MOTION PICTURE NEWS Vol. 16. No. 24 ALMOST A TRAGEDY Someone Stole Ten Pennies from His Smoke Fund! ENCLOSED find check for $2.63 amount donated by my patrons to the " Our Boys in France " Tobacco Fund since my last remittance which was October 16. The war tax is making the contributions to the Tobacco jar come a little slow, but as you said in your letter of acknowledgment I am " just keeping plugging at it." My jar is situated in such a way that I have to remove it every day when I close for supper then again at night. I took a chance one day and left it out during the supper hour. When I returned it was broken into and the 10 pennies or more, gone. What do you think of that? It seemed almost like a tragedy. I replaced the jar but it will not remain out any more when the theatre is closed. I just received a letter today from my grandson who is in training camp at Pensacola, Florida. He leaves in three days for France. He is an aviator. You surely are to be commended for this fine work you are doing and hope it will be crowned with success. Very truly yours, (Signed) John J. Meehan, Orpheum Theatre, Muncie, Ind. McVey Gets a Commission in Aviation Section Expects to Be Ordered to France Shortly — Jacobson Enters Quartermaster's Division — Metro Contributes to All Branches IT was announced last week that Hartley McVcy, brother of Mrs. Sidney Drew, and formerly associated with Mr. and Mrs. Drew in the production of Metro-Drew comedies, has received his commission as lieutenant in the aviation section of the United States Army. Lieutenant McVcy is now awaiting orders to proceed to France, where he hopes to lie successful in seeing S. Rankin Drew, Sidney Drew's son, formerly a Metro director, who is already in the aviation work abroad. Both young men have received thorough training. Lieutenant McVcy in this country, and Mr. Drew in France, are now fully equipped to use their training to good purpose. Another employe to leave to enter the service is Charles A. Jacobsen, who enters the quartermaster's division as corporal. Mr. Jacobsen's immediate destination is Camp Joseph E. Johnston, Jacksonville, Florida. He has been with Metro for two years in the capacity of purchasing agent. In Jacksonville he hopes to find his friend and former fellow-Metro employe, Benjamin A. Boyar, who is also a member of the quartermaster's department. Mr. Boyar was assistant manager of the Popular Plays and Players Studio. Metro has contributed men to all branches of the service. Aviation has claimed not a few, the navy has had a strong appeal, and the infantry has gained several recruits from among Metro employes. Lieut. James M. Loughborough of the regular army received his final training at the Officers' Training Camp, at Plattsburg. He was formerly manager of publicity for Metro, and Arthur James' right-hand man. Bennett Molter, formerly assistant director to William Christy Cabanne, joined the French aviation service before the United States entered the war, but will now be transferred to the aviation section of this country. Two other Metro men who have enlisted in the flying corps are Fred Sittenham, formerly assistant director, and Frank Cummings, assistant cameraman. New Corporations A LIST of new motion picture corpora*» tions in the States of Delaware and New York for the week ending November 24 as furnished from the records of the Corporation Trust Company, 15 Exchange Place, Jersey City, N. J., is as follows : DELAWARE IVY PICTURES CORPORATION. — Manufacture ot motion picture films and machines, incorporated for $500,000, at Dover. The incorporators are : Arthur W. Britton, Samuel B. Howard and George V. Reilly, all New York City. PICT-ROLA MANUFACTURING CORPORATION.— Manufacture of motion picture machines and talking machines, incorporated for $1,500,000, at Wilmington. John J. Jolls, M. L. Horty and K E. Longfield, all of Wilmington, are the incorporators. NEW YORK G. F. COMPANY, INC.— Motion pictures, incorporated for $10,000, at Manhattan. Allen E. Moore, 37 Wall street; Geo. F. Jebbett, 120 Sherman avenue, New York City, and Harlan S. Perrigo, 234 St. James Place, Brooklyn, are the incorporators. SIR JOHNSTONE FORBES ROBERTSON PASSING OF THE THIRD FLOOR BACK PICTURE CORPORATION.— To produce a certain photoplay, incorporated for $1,000, at Manhattan. Herbert Brenon, 125 East Seventv-second street; Alex. Beyfuss, Hotel Biltmore, Madison avenue and Forty-third street, and Benj. P. De Witt, 37 Wall street, New York City, are the incorporators. GLEN COVE AMUSEMENT CORPORATION.— Motion pictures, incorporated for $35,000, at Oyster Bay. Harry L. Hedger, Patrick F. MacMahon and Corbin Wheeler, all of Glen Cove, Long Island, N. Y., are the incorporators. PHILADELPHIA IDEAL FILM EXCHANGE, INC. — Motion pictures, incorporated for $60,000, at Manhattan. Max H. Ring, 206 Broadway; Saul Wilchins, 206 Broadway, and Geo. Ganong, 307 Third avenue, New York City, are the incorporators. SUPREME PICTURES, INCORPORATED. — Motion pictures, incorporated for $30,000, at Manhattan. Geo. H. Wiley, 511 West 113th street; Pearl M. Clark, and R L. Giffen, 116 West Thirty-ninth street, New York City, are the incorporators. " Hero Land " Bazaar Sets Aside Motion Picture Day It was announced last week that Maibelle Heikes Justice, the photo-dramatist, has been appointed to arrange for Moving Picture Day and Evening, under the auspices of the Authors' League of America, at their booth at Hero Land on December 5. On that date everything will be turned over to the industry and its individuals, it is said, as a truly representative day for motion pictures. Among the stars expected to be guests of Miss Justice on this day are Fannie Ward, Hazel Dawn, Helen Ware, Mrs. Sidney Drew, Juliette Day, Pauline Frederick, Shirley Mason, William Farnum, H. B. Warner, Sidney Drew, Frank Mills and others. Among the dramatists will be Cyrus Townsend Brady, Rex Beach, Louis Joseph Vance, Elaine Sterne, Mary Rider, Henry Albert Phillips, Epes W. Sargent and others. Klawr Selects Kessel to Give Cantonments Pictures The New York headquarters of the War Department Commission on Training Camp Activities, Entertainment Service, are now located at 1520 Broadway, with Hollis Cooley as general manager. Marc Klaw, under whose direction the " smileage book " was devised, has selected Adam Kessel, Jr., to look after the motion picture branch of the service. Virginia Chester Featured in Mena Production Mena Film Company Engaged Miss Chester to Appear in Featured Role of " By Super Strategy " — Under Production at Hollywood It is said that the part which Miss Chester will interpret in Mena's production, " By Super Strategy " calls for a wide range of dramatic talent. The story, by a sequence of episodes, depicts events recounted in Biblical history. It is said that the story is unique in construction and contains a world-wide message with a depth of purpose never before attained on the screen. Howard Gaye is directing the production. The release date has not been announced. Frank Whitson has the role of Abraham. Miss Chester is an accomplished actress and it is expected that she will add not a little to the value of this production. MENA FILM COMPANY announces that Virginia Chester, who appeared under the Universal banner in program features and who was known as " The girl from the golden West," will be featured in " By Super Strategy " now under production at the Mena studios in Hollywood, California. Miss Chester since her appearance in Universal features has been playing on the vaudeville stage and returns to the screen after an extended absence. Miss Chester will be rememberd for her work with Pathe where she played leads for about two years in Pathe productions. She was playing in musical comedy when a Pathe director saw her and engaged her for her first part in pictures.