Motography (Jul - Dec 1915)

August 7, 1915. MOTOGRAPHY 267 officers of the Triangle Film Company are H. E. Aitken, president; D. W. Griffith, Thomas Ince, Mack Sennett and Adam Kessel, Jr., vice-presidents; C. O. Bauman, secretary. It is understood that Mr. Kessel will also act as treasurer. Stanly Twist arrived in town on Saturday last. Mr. Twist stated that he had fully recovered his health and is now in a position to take up active work in the film business again. Aaron Gollos of the Photoplay Releasing Company gave a de luxe showing of the two-reel film, "Sarah Bernhardt at Home," at the Illinois theater on Tuesday, July 27, to which the representatives of the various trade journals and all of the newspapers, as well as all the exchange men and exhibitors who wish to attend, were invited. George K. Spoor arrived in Chicago on Monday, the 19th, after a short trip to the Pacific coast. It is getting to be so that the railroads would have to go out of business if there were no film companies. Messrs. Lochrane and Brown of the Northwest Weekly called at Motography's office twice during their visit to Chicago last week, reporting excellent progress with their venture in the Twin Cities. This is the first local weekly which has lasted longer than five issues, the present release of the Northwest Weekly being No. 14. J. Albert Goldman of the Standard Motion Picture Company is doing developing and printing on the wrestling match picture which was taken at Omaha July 4, at which time a new American champion was made. Richard L. Crescy, who is well known among the Chicago exhibitors through his ownership of the Clifton and Little Sheridan theaters, is contemplating entering into the producing end of the business. Mr. Crescy has a theater in Los Angeles, where he is going about the end of September, and it is quite possible that about this time we will be able to make an announcement of the picture which he has under consideration. The boys in New York will probably be very much interested in learning that "The Baron" was registered at the Sherman House on the 22nd. The folks who looped the loop on the Selig special arrived in Chicago tired and dusty, but happy, July 25th. We have had post cards from a number of them while they were en route, and from all reports everybody had a very splendid time. George Gollos has sold the Sherman Square theater and is now a gentleman of leisure. Wm. Baker of John Burnham Company is authority for the statement that no further action will be taken at this time toward the completion of the Randolph Film Corporation, which company was to make and release" a new serial by Onoto Watana, the well-known authoress. Bert Adler of New York and the Bronx continues to keep busy down at the Midway Gardens, where he is looking after the details connected with Mrs. Smalley's production in which Pavlowa is the central figure. Bert is getting quite reconciled to the world's greatest summer resort and we have hopes of making him a permanent resident, although he weeps every time he thinks of the Bronx. We get requests every now and again for information about cities or towns that do not have moving picture theaters at present. We "want to take this opportunity of notifying all of these prospective exhibitors that the town of Waynesville, 111., population 528, has no motion picture theater. We were sorry to learn that Paul Busch of the Peerless Film Exchange had an attack of ptomaine poisoning last week and was forced to cancel his trip and substitute one to the doctor. We are in receipt of the following letter from a prospective exhibitor. Anyone interested can get the name of the writer at this office: Packwood, la., July 27, 1915. Electricity Magazine Corporation, Chicago, 111. Gentlemen: Please send a sample copy of Motogeaphy. Do you know of a moving picture business for sale or a good opening in a town of 4,000 or 5.000 population? Northern Iowa or Minnesota town preferred. Send yearly subscription, also. (Signed) O. A. R. Mabel Condon postcards the writer from Avalon Bay, Santa Catalina Island, Cal. She also says something on the post card. Mabel and Horace Greely are both great writers that have points of similarity. Greeley says: "I have three styles of handwriting. One that anyone can read, one that I alone can read, and a third that no one can read." This post card is division three. Jack Williams has a splendid office and salesroom for theater supplies of all kinds _ at 18 West Washington street. Jack is one of the old-timers and has built up his business unaided, selling goods at night and by mail to get his capital. He has just been selected as the distributor for a new non-rewind device put out by L. Smith. E. B. Lockwood and John McGeary have taken space in the Mailers building, under the style of McGeary-Lockwood. This company has completed a 2,000-foot picture for the DeKalb (111.) Chronicle and 1,000 feet for the Commercial Club of Benton Harbor, Mich. ^ Tom Quill of the Goes Lithograph Company motored over to St. Joseph, Mich., in his new Hudson on Saturday last. Tom says he recently closed a $90,000 order for posters and expects to take a vacation during August, now that he has the factory busy with a number of big contracts. Charlie Worthington, the Fox manager here, spent last week in the Lakeview hospital. He has been having some trouble with his back and awanted to get it all over with at once. He was expected out this week. W. H. Bell of the W. H. Bell Feature Film Corporation, Chicago, has just returned from a trip through Indiana, where he went to secure bookings on some of the features handled by his company. Mr. Mittemuch of the Family theater. Davenport, Iowa, one of Motography's family, is remodeling the interior of his house. When completed it will have a fountain in the center 22 feet in circumference, lighted with vari-colored incandescents. The fountain runs continuously, the colored lights being turned on between pictures. A Bartola instrument is one of the features of this house. Edward Kohl, accompanied by his son, Everard, daugher, Gertrude, and sisterin-law, Agnes Fox, as well as George W. Heinbuch, all of Cleveland, were callers at Motography's offices on Monday, July 26, the entire party having visited the Pacific coast aboard the Selig special and being now en route to their homes. Mr. Kohl and his National Theaters Company of Cleveland is known the country over. He owns and operates the Amphion, National and Crown theaters in Cleveland, as well as Luna Park and Forest Park in the same city, and Myers Lake Park at Canton, Ohio. He was the founder of the old United Film Exchange, one of the oldest in Ohio and the last to be absorbed by the General Film Company. Mr. Kohl's first house was established in 1891. Mr. Heinbuch is proprietor of the Superior theater of Cleveland and in attending this year's fifth annual convention of the M. P. E. L. of A. in San Francisco kept up his record, for he proudly declares that he has never missed a national convention and never intends to so long as his health continues. Motography hopes in the near future to tell its readers more about these gentlemen. Genial George Cox, one of the powers behind the Advance Motion Picture Company of Chicago, left the city on Wednesday afternoon, July 28, for a two weeks' vacation and thorough rest at the Sacred Heart sanitarium in Milwaukee, this being the first vacation Mr. Cox has enjoyed in more than seven years, and one which he has long looked forward to. Upon his return to Chicago it is expected he will again plunge into his work with renewed vigor, and from present _ indications the Advance company will be heard from in a big way during the coming months. NOTES FROM ALL OVER Another star has been added to the broadening firmament of the motion picture world. His name is "Chang" and the Selig jungle zoo at Los Angeles, Cal., is his home. "Chang," although he is an ourang-outang, works in scenes by himself and works opposite other players. Miss Edith Reeves, who has just journeyed across the great desert to join the Balboa Company's aggregation of picture players at Long Beach, Cal., is a dainty little woman of the perfect blonde type, prettily sweet-faced and winsome — a talented and experienced actress. Raymond Jerome Binder, who some years ago was with the Dearborn and Marlowe stock companies and deserted them _ to enter the business world, takes part in Essanay's "Business Rivals," released on August 3. The first motion picture projecting machine designed by Nicholas Power, and which saw long and actual service in several of New York's theaters, arrived at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition and was set up in the