Motion Picture News (Sept-Oct 1918)

2340 Motion Picture News War Service Exposition Opens ^fe d&onor JPoll^ National Exposition of the Motion Picture Industry Starts Saturday, October 5, at Madison Square Garden EIGHT o'clock Saturday evening, October 5, Enrico Caruso, accompanied by the Strand theatre orchestra, officially opened the War Service Exposition of the Moving Picture Industry, to be held at Madison Square Garden, October 5 to 13, inclusive, and once more the sixth largest industry will have an opportunity to show how closely its interests and those of the Government are interwoven. Every phase of Government war work requiring the use of skilled labor, from the manufacture of cloth for our soldiers' and sailors' uniforms, to the building of ships to carry them Over There, as well as the food and fuel to keep them healthy and comfortable until they return, will be represented. In all, these various exhibits will cover over one-third of the entire floor space of the Garden. First from an artistic point of view will probably be the exhibit of the Woman's Land Army, which is going to explain to the unitiated that the patriotic woman can readily replace her brother in agricultural work while he fights for her at the front. Before a white-painted cottage, with a snugly thatched roof, the Land Army will demonstrate to the public the use of farm implements and machinery, many of them especially designed for the use of women. The Remington Arms Company will exhibit a complete display of the various types of weapons and ammunitions used by our troops and those of Great Britain, France, Belgium and Italy. It will include machine guns, rifles and bayonets. A detachment of soldiers and representatives of the company will be on hand to explain the mysteries of their construction, and by way of illustration of what Fritz may expect from them there will be huge blocks of wood pierced with thousands of bullet holes to show the peneration of the Yankee bullet. The Gas Defence Division of the Chemical Warfare Service of the U. S. Army will have forty girls at the Garden who will manufacture before exposition visitors the gas masks used by our men in the trenches. The use of the trench fan and system of blowing poison gas from the trenches and dug-outs will also be demontrated, and there will be examples of the masks used by both Germany and the Allies. Of special interest will be the exhibit of the Emergency Fleet Corporation, who will show miniature ships in process of construction and the multitude of tools used in this important branch of war work. One of the principal features will be the program of motion pictures shown nightly in the concert hall of the Garden. There will be pictures taken of the various war industries, of our army in France and a number of special releases by the Division of Films of the Committee on Public Information. The motion picture industry itself will, of course, be well represented. Famous Players, Lasky, World, Vitagraph, Pathe, Fox, Metro, Select, Edgar Lewis' Producductions. William A. Brady and William L. Sherry will have booths and various lighting and equipment firms will also be present. Every day of the exposition will be devoted to some special branch of Government war service or of the motion picture industry, and the famous stars of the screen will be in attendance at the various booths to give the public an opportunity to meet them face to face and to give assistance to their Government in winning the war. Paramount-Artcraft stars who will appear are Marguerite Clark, Elsie Ferguson, William Faversham, Shirley Mason, Ernest Truex, Billie Burke, John Barrymore, George M. Cohan, Bryant Washburn and William S. Hart. The long-awaited and much-discussed Motion Picture Dinner under the joint auspices of the National Association of the Motion Picture Industry and the Associated Motion Picture Advertisers, Inc., will be held Friday evening, October 11, in the Grand Ball Room of the Hotel Astor. Selig Films Camp Pictures for Y. M. C. A. The Selig Polyscope Company has been commissioned by the Y. M. C. A. to film a series of training camp pictures. George Bainbridge, director of the enterprise, announces that nearly 2,000,000 soldiers and sailors and marines will be in the cast. The title selected for the film is " The Red Triangle." It is to be released by the Mutual Film Corporation on October 20. Included in this picture will be about 600,000 men in the training camps in the United States, as well as large bodies of men on the battlefields of Europe. The Y. M. C. A. is to use the picture in the United War Work Campaign. A special film of two reels is being made for each locality, the main idea being to present the " home boys " at every place. To make this feat possible nearly 100,000 feet of film was necessary. Universal Loan Films Arouse Interest Sparks are flying from the Universal's activity in behalf of the Fourth Liberty Loan. That company has produced five star pictures and has packed its news pictorials with knockout propaganda on the subject. The special films, featuring Monroe Salisbury, and Rupert Julian, Harry Carey, Mae Murray, Ruth Clifford and Dorothy Phillips, were shipped from the coast, and are being distributed according to plans devised by the committee in charge of the loan pictures. The Universal believes it has established a record for fast and high class production in its efforts for the Loan. The name of Clem Pope, of Los Angeles, is added to the Honor Roll. He was in the employ of Motion Picture New| until he joined the service. Arthur Shivers, of the Wrest Coast division of Motion Picture News, has joined the colors. Earl Metcalfe is back from France on a special service mission. He "was with the N. Y. 165th Infantry, and bears two service stripes. The name of Leon J. Bamberger, head of the contract department of the Fox Film Corporation, has been added to the long and rapidly growing Fox roll of honor. Mr. Bamberger left Monday for Camp Greene, N. C, forty-eight hours after receiving notice from his local board. Walter Morton, motion picture director, whose most recent production was " Daughter of Uncle Sam " serial for the Jaxon Film Corporation, has offered himself for work abroad as a Knights of Columbus secretary. He goes to Paris to work under James Hearn of New York, who is in charge of all field activities at K. of C. headquarters. Dave Blythe, former Detroit exhibitor and film salesman, is now manager of the Libcrtv theatre, Camp Sevier, Greenville, S. C. G. C. Jefferson, former publicity manager for Detroit office of Paramount, has been promoted to Lieutenant in the Ordnance Machine School. He expects to sail soon for overseas. A. J. Kleist, Pontiac, Mich., exhibitor, operating the Howland and Eagle theatres, is now a Lieutenant, stationed at one of the Washington camps. Harry Lorch, former publicity man for the Butterfield circuit and manager of the State Film Co., Detroit, is now general supervisor of the stock companies playing at the government Libertv theatres. H. O. Pierce, former publicity manager for the John H. Kunsky Enterprises, Detroit, is now assistant manager of Liberty theatres of the United States, with headquarters in Washington. The loss of the Boston branch's oldest employee, and probably the oldest employee of General Film, has been announced to the headquarters of the com. pany by Manager J. D. Levine in reporting the resignation of E. H. Warren. The severance of this long connection was due to a call for armv service. mwum iiuiuuiiuiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiRUN LIBERTY FILMSnhiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiihii mm HiMinuiHiiiiiiHa