Motion Picture News (Sept-Oct 1918)

September 21, 1918 THE CENTRAL STATES iwiiiimiii "Everything for the M. P. Theatre except the Film" U E iRE EXCU SIVE D1STR1BI TOJIS For POWER'S PROJECTORS HALLBERG MOTOR GENERATORS GARDINER VELVET GOLD FIBRE SCREEN NATIONAL CARBONS EDISON MAZDA LAMPS When in Chicago Remember That A HEARTY WELCOME AWAITS YOU AT UNITED THEATRE EQUIPMENT 512 South Wabash Avenue CORPORATION Chicago, 111. WE ARE EXCLUSIVE DISTRIBUTORS SIDES PRODUCTS ACME PORTABLE PROJECTORS NOVELTY SLIDES AND M. P. SUPPLIES OF HIGH GRADE TOWER'S 6 B if. A. FULTON, BRANCH MANAGER CENTRALLY LOCATED— GROUND FLOOR " HALLBERG MOTOR GENERATOR Heard in Detroit PAUL J. SCHLOSSMAN, manager, of Muskegon and Grand Haven, has signed for 100 per cent, of William Fox productions during the coming season. This means everything from the Fox-Standards program and specials down to the cartoons and comedies. 7 HE REGENT THEATRE, Bay City, has just signed for all of the Fox-Standards, as well as all the Fox specials, for the coming season. B. A. MORTHORST, who has been head bookkeeper at the Detroit Vitagraph exchange, has been promoted to assistant branch manager by J. M. Duncan — an advancement that he has earned by faithful service to the Vitagraph Company. He succeeds N. Dow Thompson, who resigned last Saturday to become manager of the Maxime theatre. Mr. Morthorst will handle the bookings in addition to acting as assistant to Manager Duncan. Mrs. Maud Gurney, for several years with the Universal exchange, will succeed Mr. Morthorst as head bookkeeper at the Vitagraph. J. C. FISHMAN, Standard manager in Detroit, reports that he is enjoying excellent business on the Christie Comedies, released weekly. Among the Detroit theatres using them two days each week are the Rialto, Ferry Field, Lincoln Square and Empire. Others using them for one day each are the Maxine, Del-The, Courtesy, Knickerbocker, Gladwin Park, Lakewood, Iris, Farnum, etc. JOHN APPLEGATE, formerly manager of Pathe's Denver office, is now touring Michigan in behalf of Foursquare pictures for Joe Horwitz. He is specializing on " The Mad Lover " and " Today," which Joe considers the greatest pictures of the year. SO THAT he can devote 100 per cent, of his efforts to his Detroit exchange, Hustling Joe Horwitz has disposed of his interest in the Cleveland office to Joe Deiner and Bert M. Stum. THE Shorty Hamilton and Warren Kerrigan two-reel subjects — Western dramas, released through the Standard exchange, have been booked by the Bernhardt and Farnum theatres, Detroit, and the Orpheum, Kalamazoo. THE Standard Film Service, Detroit, which is now the Michigan distributor on the Ford Weekly, announces as " A Visit to Niagara Falls " as the current release. This is the first of Ford's series of hand-colored subjects. Manager Fishman reports that the Majestic theatre, Detroit, has first run, the Washington second run, and that among some of the other leading houses, booking the Ford Weekly are Family, Ferry Field, Rialto, Stratford, Maxine, Lakewood, Knickerbocker, Iris, Farnum, Courtesy, Delthe, Forest. HAL SMITH, of the Ferry Field theatre, Detroit, is back after a three weeks' vacation. Eddie Murphy, of the Gladwin Park theatre, is also back from his two weeks' vacation, spent in and around Kalamazoo, his former home. W. E. SCHUTTENHELM, who formerly conducted his own theatre on Oakland avenue, Detroit, is now house manager and booker for the Stratford theatre, Dix avenue, Detroit. L. A. HARDY, manager in Detroit of the Parex Film Exchange, which distributes the William L. Sherry pictures, announces the company's policy for the coming season. There will be fifty-two pictures, featuring Doris Kenyon, Catherine Calvert, Jewel Carmen and Vingie Valentine. In addition, there will be thirty Burlingham Travelogues, single reel each ; also a series, of eight five-reel Broncho Billy subjects made by George Anderson, and one two-reel special Broncho Billy subject. " With this line up, I believe that Sherry pictures will be