Motion Picture News (Sept-Oct 1918)

October 5,1918 THE WEST COAST 3 What Exchanges and Theatres Are Doing E. D. TATE, branch manager of Pathe exchange, will leave for New York nexi week 'o attend the annual convention of battle exchangemen, who will gather in the Eastern Metropolis on Sept. 24 trom practically every city in the United States. Mr. Tata expects to be in the East about one month. * The convention this year will in many ways be a " war session," Mr. Tate baid, inasmuch as questions as to how tne exchanges may lend their assistance in winning the war will be up for d'scussion. THE FIRST OF VTTAGRAPHS two-reel Big-V comedies reached the Los Angeles Vitagraph exchange this week, according to announcement by Branch Manager W. ri. Hepburn. The comedies received by him are " Misfits and Matrimo.iy," with Montgomery and Rock, and " Huns and Hyphens," wrifen by Larry Semon, with Mr Semon playing the leading roie. Arrangements for exhibition of the pictures in Los Angeles have not as yet been made, Mr. Hepburn said. H. D. NAUGLE, Western division man?ger of Vitagraph, will leave Monday for a three weeks' trip to ail important cities on the Pacific Coast. He will visit in San Francisco, Seatle, 1'acoma and Vancouver. MANAGER W. H. HEPBURN, of the Vitagraph exchange in Los Angeles, will call on the trade in San Diego next week, but he says he will not make any more auto trips at uight. He has not forgotten nis experience with footpads near Riverside a few weeks ago. J. L. LAZARUS, president of the Sunset Film Corporation, is expected in i*os Angeies to confer with the Triangle interests, who have taken over the Sunset exchange in Los Angeles. Announcement that Mr. Lazarus would visit Los Angeles at this time was wired to John C. Moore, former district manager of the Sunset. R. W. Lynch, of the Triangle Distributing corporation, has planned to leave this week for San Francisco for conferences with Mr. Lazarus, but the trip was canceled when Mr. Lazarus wuec that he would come to Los Angeles. FAIRBANKS AND WILLIAM S. HART pictures, formerly released in this tentory by the Sunset exchange, will hereafter be handled by the Triangle exchange. Manager C. J. Marley announces. THAT BUSINESS in the Northwest is better this year than in many seasons, is the declaration this week by George J. Eckre, who has just taken charge of the Los Angeles office of the General Film exchange. Mr. Eckre was formerly branch manager for General Film at Portland. He says conditicr.s at Seattle, Portland. Tacoma and Vancouver are especially good. He gives the great boom in the shipbuilding industry as one of the reasons, and another reason that of the great patronage according propaganda films. His first week ,n Los Angeles has so impressed him, he says, that he hopes to remain here indefinitely. F. M. STEELE, special representative of the William L. Sherry service in Los Angeles, went to Long Beach this week and booked the full Sherry service at the Rialto theatre in the beach city. THE BURLINGHAM TRAVEL PICTURES are to be shown in the new California theatre just nearing completion on Main street in Los Angeles, according to announcement by the Sherry service in Los Angeles. Thirty pictures in one and two-reel subjects have been booked by the new house, it is announced. SOL LESSER will be in Los Angeles this week for conferences with D. W. Griffith relative to securing certain film rights to " Hearts of the World," according to anouncement made from the All Star Features exchange. He also expects to investigate general conditions in the Los Angeles territory, it is understood. THE ALL STAR FEATURES EXCHANGE this week announced that it has secured the rights of " Pershing's Crusaders " for Arizona. Louis Hyman, manager of the All Star Features exchange, says that " Pershing's Crusaders " has been booked in every town and city in Southern California, with the exception of half a dozen smaller communities. He adds that the two prints of the picture in this territory have been booked solid until November IS. '• AMERICA'S ANSWER," the Government film that followed " Pershing's Crusaders," opened at the A.'lambra theatre iast week to bigger business than was drawn by its patriotic predecessor, according to Louis Hyman, manager of the All Star Features exchange. This picture will also be shown in nearly every town in Southern California, he announces. MISS DIXON, of Dixon and Dixon, prominent exhibitors in Ventura, was in Los Angeles this week and booked from the Mutual exchange for her theatre " The Hoosier's Romance." by James Whitcomb Riley. THE AMERICAN TRONA COMPANY, manufacturers of potash, at Trona, Cal., this week opened their new theatre at the plant. They will present a program that will feature Chaplin releases from Mutual and Outing Chester pictures. ^ THE AMERICAN THEATRE at Pomona this week signed a contract with Mutual for Outing Chester pictures. THE OCEAN THEATRE at Ocean Beach, near San Diego, has adopted a one-day program for the winter. The house will be open one day each week hereafter, and that day will be Saturday. SIGMUND STERN, owner of the Star and Rosebud, suburban theatres of Los Angeles, and one of the oldest exhibitors in the city, died last Wednesday. Nearly every exhibitor in Los Angeles sent floral tributes to the funeral. J. J. LEGGETT, a prominent exhibitor at Douglas, Ariz., was in Los Angeles this week lining up his fall program. He spent several hours Saturday in conference with B. E. Loper, manager of Select Pictures. WILLIAM LENTZ, salesman for Select Pictures, returned to Los Angeles this week from a trip over California. He reported good business. THE MAIN TOPIC of conversation at the Fox Film exchange throughout last week was a discussion of the way " Salome," starring Theda Bara, opened the week at Clune's Auditorium. 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Los Angeies during its opening week in Los Angeles. The picture has been booked solid until the middle "f November in nearly every city in Southern California, Mr. Walsh announces. EDUCATIONAL FILM RELEASES, including the Blue Scenics and Mexico Today." will open at Grauman's theatre on Sept. 23. according to announcement by H. W. Stubbins, manager of M. & R. Features. JAMES COOK, owner of the Palace theatre at El Centro, after spending most of the summer season in Los Angeles, this week completed his bookings for the winter season and prepared to return to El Centro. Among some of the subjects he selected is " The Unbeliever," released by the George Kleine System. CHARLIE CHAPLIN in " Triple Trouble." a George Kleiire release, played to capacity business at the Garrick theatre during its two weeks' run at that house, just closed, according to a report by Manager Glimm to the Kleine offices. THE VICTORY THEATRE between Eighth and Ninth streets on Broadway was opened this week under the management of Claude Halsell, manager also of the American theatre. The house was formerly conducted under the names of Woodley. Reviera and Sennett. It has been compeltely renovated and will be operated at popular prices, ten cents for any seat. '• FOR HUSBANDS ONLY," a Lois Weber production, will enter a week's run at the Superba theatre, having returned to Los Angeles following its first exhibition at the Kinema theatre about four weeks ago. The picture is a Universal release C. T. GIBSON, while in Los Angeles, announced that he would reopen the Imperial theatre at Imperial, Cal., on Sept. IS. Hart Begins New Elaborate Feature WILLIAM S. HART commenced work this week on a new production which will follow "The Border Wireless" in release, and which, from every standpoint, will probably be the most elaborate feature he has ever made. "The Border Wireless," Hart's latest film to be released, is being heralded enthusiastically by the film world because of its swift moving plot and because of the fact that it presents Hart in a new and different characterization from those which he has been interpreting in the past. However, the new picture on which the star is now working, and which has not yet been definitely titled, removes Hart even farther from his usual type of character delineation and will show him in a role which is a wide departure from anything he has ever done.