Motion Picture News (Sept-Oct 1918)

1992 Motion Picture News U. S. Co-operates in Exposition United States Fuel Administration Has Taken Large Space in National Motion Picture Exposition in Madison Square Garden THE United States Fuel Administration has taken space number 85 for the National Motion Picture Exposition to be held in Madison Square Garden October 5 to 13 inclusive. This is one of the largest spaces in the Garden and the Fuel Administration is planning one of the biggest exhibits in the whole show. Besides making it impressive as to its size they also expect to make it one of the most interesting and instructive of all the highly interesting exhibits that have already been promised. P. B. Noyes, head of the conservation division of the Fuel Administration stated when he arranged for this space that he was most enthusiastic about this War Service Exposition of the motion picture industry. He said : " This exposition has the hearty approval and endorsement of the Fuel Administration. We believe in it all the way through and are only too glad to be afforded the opportunity to take space and to stage an exhibit. "Coming as it does early in October there will be no necessity for heat of any kind and nearly all of those taking exhibits are located in or around New York, so there will be no heavy demands on the railroads for transportation. " This exposition fits in very well with our plans for starting a big educational campaign among the people for fuel conservation and I know of no better place to start it than at this motion picture exposition in the heart of New York City." Joseph Johnson, publicity director for the Red Cross, is another one who is enthusiastic about this exposition. When it was called to his attention by Frederick H. Elliott, executive secretary of the National Association of the Motion Picture Industry and general manager of the Exposition Company, he expressed himself as being heartily in favor of it and agreed on the spot to take space. He immediately addressed a letter to his assistants in New York to select the space for the Red Cross exhibit and gave them instructions as to the character and scope this exhibit was to take. As soon as these details have been completed they will be announced. While in Washington Mr. Elliott visited the offices of the Food Administrations and received assurances from high officials of that department of the government that they would be represented at the show. As soon as they can decide upon the form their exhibit is to take definite arrangements will be made to select a space of sufficient size to make the proper display. Although it cannot be announced officially at this time it is very probable that this exposition will contain the largest exhibit of war relics taken from the battlefields of France that have ever been gathered together in New York. These relics were collected by the allied governments and have been loaned to the Liberty Loan Com mittee for use in the coming drive. In all there are about twenty-seven carloads of these relics and conferences that are to be held between Mr. Elliott and Frank R. Wilson, publicity director for the Liberty Loan Committee will determine just how many of them will be placed on view at the Garden during the exposition. It is expected during the course of the next week that other important administrative departments of the government who have expressed a desire to have space at this exposition will complete their final arrangements. These include the Aircraft Board, the Army, the Navy, the Department of Agriculture, the Y. M. C. A., and the allied war charities organizations and the War Savings Stamps Committee. Preliminary discussions have already been held with representatives of the Department of Agriculture and definite assurances have been received that they will be represented among the government space holders. One of the most gratifying facts about this whole exposition is the manner in which the supply and equipment people are taking space. These include the Nicholas Power Company, the Precision .Machine Company, the National Lamp Works, the National Carbon Company, the Westinghouse Lamp Company, the Cooper Hewitt Light Company, the Edison Lamp Works of the General Electric Company, the United Theatre Equipment Company, and J. H. Hallberg. Many inquiries have been received from other companies in the supply and equipment field and it is expected that they will sign contracts for space in the immediate future. Madison Square Garden will be elaborately decorated for this exposition. The color scheme will naturally be red, white and blue, as this is a war service exposition and the whole decorative plan will be worked out to impress this fact on the general public. Plans and sketches are now being drawn and it can be safely said that when the doors are thrown open to the public on Saturday night, October 5, that the motion picture industry will be proud of the work that has been done. The floor plan of the Madison Square Garden is now on file in the offices in the Times building and space holders are urged to come in and select their spaces at the earliest opportunity. Owing to the rapid manner in which space is being disposed of, over half of the entire main floor of the Garden has been sold, the desirable locations are being rapidly selected. Owing to the difference in the shape of the Garden and the Palace there is both a difference in the arrangement and the sizes of the locations. Cameraman Passes Away Louis Ostland, cameraman of World Pictures, died last Monday as a result of an operation for appendicitis. Mr. Ostland in point of service was one of the oldest cameramen connected with the World. For the past six months he has been working in conjunction with Dell Henderson in making the Blackwell-Greeley pictures. Federal Trade Commission Issues Orders to Stanley Co. of Philadelphia Early this week the Federal Trade Commission rendered an important decision which establishes a precedent and is expected to have a far-reaching effect upon the motion picture business. They ordered the Stanley Booking Corporation of Philadelphia, to desist from practices designed to force film producers and theatres to deal with each other through the corporation. Specifically the corporation is ordered to discontinue : Procuring the cancellation of contracts for the exhibition of moving picture films made between its competitors and the producers ; Procuring films which have been announced for exhibition by its competitors and exhibiting them in the same neighborhood in advance of the date advertised by such competitors, to hinder, harass and embarrass competitors; Making contracts for films on the condition or understanding that the lessee or purchaser shall not use films produced by a competitor ; Making threats and employing methods of intimidation to compel theatres to pay commissions on films booked directly from the producer or film exchanges; Making threats against independent exhibitors that unless they book through the agency their supply of films will be cut off, and, Threatening producers and film exchanges with the withdrawal of patronage in order to induce them to cease supplying certain of their competitors with films. Arthur Guy Empey Helps in Tank Boys' Benefit Arthur Guy Empey, author of " Over the Top " and star of Vitagraph's great production by that name, who recently enlisted as a private in the United States Tank Corps, was detailed to New York to assist in organizing and managing the benefit performance given at the Century theatre to raise a welfare fund for the " Treat 'Em Rough " boys. He gave a big check to the fund. Alice Joyce, Corinne Griffith, Gladys Leslie and other Vitagraph stars aided in selling tickets for the entertainment. Empey, having finished his training at Fort Slocum, is now stationed at Camp Colt, Gettysburg, Pa., which is the best of the camps established for the tanks. Sam Carlton to Kokomo Sam Carlton of Frankfort, Ind., has been secured to take charge of the Sipe theatre at Kokomo, Ind. The Morning Times of Frankfort, had the following to say about Mr. Carlton : " Mr. Carlton is well known , here and it is largely through his efforts that the local theatrical field became a success. He is a practical theatrical man and every inch a showman, and there is no doubt but that he will make a success in Kokomo. The theatre-goers of that city are to be congratulated in having secured Mr. Carlton and his new position." iiiiiiiiiiuiiiiiiuniuiiiiuiiiiuiiuiiiuiu iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuBUY LIBERTY BONDSiiNiiiiiiiiiiuiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiin niiiiiiniiimiiiiiniiiiuiiiii