Motion Picture News (Sept-Oct 1918)

September 28, 1 p 1 8 1993 ^onorJSbll^ Equipment Displays at Big Show nsuuiTiiiintini)iiniii]iiitii!iii[riuxriRi:iniitnijr!!ii!iur[iijiiiiiiliiiiJir<.<i<:ii <i'.i:iiiiiuiuiiriiitii><'!ii.!i'<-^ I 1 These men of the staff of HOTIOX PICTURE SEWS I have joined the colors H. N. Conant J. L. KeUey Theo. S. Mead George D. Gould Win. MeCormack Leo Kane BuoiiHiiinniniiiiiiiuininiiininniiiiiiinniiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiininiiiniiiiiiiniiiiiniiiiniiiiiuiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiia L. M. O'Connor and Ed Morrison, two of the cameramen from the Lasky lot in Hollywood have just completed a course at the School of Aero Photography in New York, which is part of Columbia University, and have been awarded commissions in the photographic division of the army. Lieutenant Roy Marshall is another Lasky boy who has quickly won his way to a commission. Marshall, who was assistant director with George Melford, enlisted as a private some time ago, and worked up to I a non-commissioned officer's job, late receiving his commission. Among other Lasky boys who have been given commissions lately and are overseas or on their way there are Tom Forman, I Ted Duncan and Walter Long, actors and 'Richard Sherer, formerly an assistant di: rector. Duncan is a captain, and the others ■ are lieutenants. : ; Two more stars were added to the Lasky service flag the other day when Paul Perry, • :amcra expert, and John Browne, assistant -director, left the studio to take up war l • work. ; Joseph Rinehart, chief technician of the \ \Screen Telegram, the Mutual twice a week :s ! lews reel, has been called by the Fort Lee, > ,M. J., Draft Board, and inducted into milii ary service at Camp Dix, N. J. Charles V. Burton, prominent free lance ameraman of Cleveland, has accepted a ommission as second lieutenant in the U. 5. Signal Corps. Burton left for Washngton last week. Another son of Studio Manager W. S. Smith of the Vitagraph Hollywood plant as gone into the service. Ernest Smith, ameraman for Paul Hurst at the VitaTaph lot, is the newest member of the Smith family to join the colors. He has sft for Camp Kearney during the past treek and now the sixth star in the rear anel of Mr. Smith's car has underneath the name " Ernest Smith." The accomanying five stars surmount the following ames : Lieut. A. D. Smith, Lieut. George The National Motion Picture Exposition at Madison Square Garden, October 5 to 13, Has Support of Supply Men THE National Motion Picture Exposition to be held at the Madison Square Garden October 5 to 13 is receiving the enthusiastic support of the supply and equipment members of the industry. Practically all of the large concerns in this branch of the business have completed their arrangements for space and are now engaged in working out details for their exhibits. In many cases these will be particularly elaborate. The National Lamp Works has increased its space over that which it had contracted for for the Grand Central Palace Exposition and is planning an interesting and instructive demonstration of the use of incandescent lamps in projection. The Edison Lamp Works of the General Electric Company have arranged to take large space and are planning an equally elaborate exhibit. The same also applies to the lamp department ©f the Westinghouse Electric Company. Naturally any motion picture exposition would be uncomplete without the Nicholas Power Company and the Precision Machine Company being represented ; they have both taken large blocks of space. The United Theatre Equipment Company is another concern that is arranging for a complete exhibit of all machines necessary for the proper and artistic presentation of moving pictures. One of the novel features of the exposition will be the demonstration that is being arranged by the Sunlight Arc Company which, on the opening night will take moving pictures of the whole show. They claim that by placing four of their new Sperry-gyroscopic lamps in the balcony of the Madison Square Garden that every corner of the vast building will be as bright as day. They have received permission to take moving pictures of the show, and they plan to exhibit these pictures in the large theatres of the city during exposition week. Other concerns which have contracted for space in the supply and equipment division are the National Carbon Company, the American Coin Register Company and the Cooper Hewitt Lamp Company. Inquiries have been received from a number of other supply and equipment concerns and contracts are being negotiated. One of the most interesting exhibits from a mechanical standpoint will be that of the United States Employment Bureau which is planning to stage a demonstration of every form of war industry in which the Government is engaged. This will include the actual building of miniature ships, aeroplanes, shells and so forth. For this reason alone this should be the most successful exposition ever held by the motion picture industry and because of the close co-operation with the Administration Departments Smith, Lieut. Victor Smith, Corporal Edward Smith, Private Frank L. Smith and Private Ernest Smith. tion which is located at Muscle Shoah; Ala. Frank J. Alberti, who has conducted a theatre electrical supply house at 100 Golden Gate avenue, San Francisco, has been called by the Liberty Army and left September 14 for Camp Houston with the Fifty-third Artillery. He is a member of Battery A. Pliny Home, Triangle cameraman, has been admitted to the United States Signal Corps School of Photography at Columbia University. He is now awaiting orders to report to New York City. A party of friends that included VicePresident Hammons of the Educational Films Corporation visited one of the nearby camps week before last and said goodbye to Sergeant L. V. Calvert, a Signal Corps " non-com," who went abroad with his fighting unit immediately thereafter. Sergeant Calvert was formerly manager of the New Garrick, Minneapolis. Former Casting Director Melville Brown of the Chaplin studio personnel announced this week that he will soon enter the United States naval service. He will be stationed at San Pedro. Chaplin plans to give him a farewell dinner. Another Springfield photoplay theatre attache has answered the call of Uncle Sam. Louis Dawson, formerly assistant manager at the Royal, will enter the U. S. Army on Wednesday, September 11. Richard Garrick, well known as director general for Gaumont Co. and several other motion picture companies, having been rejected for overseas service, is doing his bit for Uncle Sam as Amusement Director of the $60,000,000 Air Nitrates Corpora Fox Stars Thanked for Autographed Photographs Private William Donnachie of the Fourth Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, now at North Berwick, Scotland, recovering from Spanish influenza contracted at the front, has written to William Fox that the sale of autographed photographs of various Fox stars has added a total of $125 to the Red Cross of Great Britain. Private Donnachie, who enclosed a letter of thanks from the secretary of the North Berwick branch, wrote as follows : " Allow me to thank the following Fox players who so generously donated photographs toward the Red Cross : Miss Peggy Hyland, Miss Virginia Pearson, Miss Theda Bara, Mr. Tom Mix ond Mr. William Farnum. 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