Motion Picture News (Oct 1913 - Jan 1914)

42 THE MOTION PICTURE NEWS $500,000 THEATRE FOR CLEVELAND Pretentious New Motion Picture House Uses Warner's Features Cleveland's newest and most beautiful playhouse, the Miles Theatre, which cost $500,000 to build, has contracted with H. Charnas, manager of the Cleveland office of Warner's Features, Inc., for the exclusive program of Warner's Features. The theatre seats 2,100 personsv and there are three floors. There are two divisions of the upper floor — a balcony and gallery. Off the main foyer there are attractive parlors for the women patrons and smoking rooms for the men. Adequate service rooms are accessible from each of the floors, and especially complete and modern is the equipment of the house, both in front and back of the curtain. The decorations of the auditorium are ivory gray, old rose and gold, and there is a novel and attractive treatment of the proscenium and boxes. The ground-work is a gray lattice, with the background in old rose, the shade deepening from the arch to the last tier of boxes. All stairways are in gold leaf; and the upholstering of the roomy seats is in old rose. The builders have set a new example in giving unusually wide spaces between the rows of seats and corresponding wide aisles. When C. H. Miles elected to open his "theatre beautiful" with the program of Warner's Features, he was merely carrying out his policy of providing the finest attractions obtainable for the photoplay-lovers of Cleveland and vicinity. "THE BOY AND THE LAW" The first presentation of "The Boy and the Law" at the New York Theatre Monday evening proves well the claims of its producers, the Youth Photoplay Company, that it is a "different" kind of a picture. It is a picture of excellent action and human interest, with a very solemn appeal. The story of the development of a lawless boy, who, through the offices of Judge Brown's scheme of treatment, is made into a useful, lawabiding citizen, is graphically told. The acting, particularly that of the boys on "Boytown Farm," is unusually good. The picture leaves an impression of naturalness and reality, and a forceful lesson of uplift. The story of "The Boy and the Law," together with the narrative of its inception, has been interestingly told in these columns by W. W. Young, general manager of the company. Perhaps the strongest argument for the success of the picture is that its five parts held the constant and deep interest of a very varied audience facing a long vaudeville program. W. A. J. SPECIAL MUSIC FOR KLEINE "POMPEII" A decided innovation in presenting pictures is George Kleine's idea in writingmusicespecially for his big subjects. The well-known Chicago music composer, Palmer Clark, has prepared a fifty-page score, written especially for "The Last Days of Pompeii," portraying the sentiment and emotions of that time. The music has been bound in neat volumes and is sent in advance to the theatre musicians where "Pompeii" will be shown. This is probably the first case on record where a composer has been hired to write his score from the motion picture. Mr. Kleine expects to adopt this as a regular custom for all future big subjects. the depths of social degradation into which she has been unwittingly drawn. That the Busch Gardens are so superbly beautiful that they could be used as environment for such a situation, is sufficiently descriptive of their character. Bessie Eyton plays the wonderfully vivid and beautiful part of the modern Magdalen. Wheeler Oakman appears in the leading role. FAMOUS BUSCH GARDENS AS A BACKGROUND Through special permission, a company of Selig players in California was allowed access for working purposes in the world-famous sunken garden of the late Adolphus Busch, located near Pasadena. This park, which ranks with any botanical garden of the world, was recently closed to the general public on account of the death of the owner, who recently passed away in Europe, but the reverent character of the picture, which Colin Campbell is producing, made it possible for him to get access to the garden without offence to the memory of the late owner. The story dramatized entitled, "The Master of the Garden," was written by Lanier Bartlett as a two-part drama of an allegorical type in which the purity of a young girl who has been wronged brings her back from ERRATA In last week's News we were made, on page 43, to use the word "movie." As we detest this vulgarism, we are sorry to have afflicted our readers with it, especially after our repeated announcement that "motion pictures" is the correct term. In the little reference to Stan Twist's love feast, we are made, in the title, to say "Movie Scribblers Move." For the word "move" there should have been printed "meet." It was a printer's error. But as to the term "Movie Scribblers," we assume no responsibility. This belongs to Mr. Twist and Mr. Twist must cash his own paper. Motion pictures whenever possible, everybody, please. EASTERN FEATURE HERE The Eastern Feature Film Company, now located at 835 Broadway, is now releasing new features every week in New York and New England. Miss M. B. Havey and Rosemary Theby, formerly of the Reliance, have joined the Lubin forces. Miss Theby should add much charm to the Lubin films. Miss Havey occupies a seat in the editorial department. JOSEPH DE GRASSE AND ENID MARKEY IN A FORTHCOMING AMMEX FEATURE