Motography (Jul - Dec 1915)

1008 MOTOGRAPHY Vol. XIV, No. 20. eastern headquarters, Julian M. Solomon, Jr., accessory and advertising manager, and Pete J. Schmid, publicity representative. A large space will be allotted to the stenographic and billing departments. The store-room fitted out with steel shelving for the accessories and special advertising boosters, the mimeograph, multigraph and addressograph machines, cut cabinets, etc., will be in charge of Carl Berger. A little over a year ago Carl H. Pierce, with the assistance of Julian M. Solomon, Jr., represented the company in the east, occupying desk room at 440 Fourth avenue. The rush of business soon compelled them to take an office in the Candler building when Pete Schmid joined them. Stenographers and other assistants were steadily added to the staff and the space in which to work, together with the store room, soon became overcrowded. A new exhibitor's aid department has just been installed under the care of Georg-e K. Henken. Pollock Likes Film Position H. C. Pollock, sales agent for the Pathe exchange in Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida, finds the sunny south very much to his liking. His bookings of "Neal of the Navy," "J Rufus Wallingford," and the Pathe masterpieces, the Gold Rooster plays, during the past three months in Dixie have so far weaned him away from his newspaper work, he says he has cut out politics forever and is going to devote the remainder of his days to "radiating life" through his work with the house of Pathe. Lubin Star Changes Her Name With the release of the Lubin four-reel drama, "Heartaches," during the week of November 29, there will appear in the character of Kate Merry, the winsome little country miss, a new name in photoplays, and, although photoplay fans will recognize in the features of this dainty and talented little actress Miss Vinnie Burns, they too will be forcefully impressed with the new name which Miss Burns has adopted. Recently there was released a Lubin picture, "The Desert Honeymoo n," in which Miss Burns appeared in the leading role. The excellent performance which she gave in this production earned for her a new host of friends and among the letters she received was one from a young girl admirer of Philadelphia, who, writing on behalf of her many friends, requested that Miss Burns grant her an interview at the studios. Miss Burns agreed and stated the time. Promptly there was the writer of the letter and with her a committee of fifty young Philadelphia girls, and with an apt speech they presented to their idol a magnificent bunch of fifty American Beauty roses, bearing a card which read, "To Our Favorite, June Daye." Impressed with the symphony of the two names, Miss Burns agreed and now she wants the rest of her friends of the country to know that beginning with her appearance as Kate Merry in "Heartaches," released some time during the week of November 29, she will be known only as June Daye. Gilmore in "The Other Girl" Harry R. Raver this week announces the engagement of Paul Gilmore to portray the role of the Reverend Clifton Bradford and co-star with James J. Corbett in the Raver Film Corporation's first Augustus Thomas production, "The Other Girl." Gilmore interprets in the minister a character brim full of personality and delightfully likable. It well befits his dash, vim and comely appearance. Exhibitors and their patrons will recognize Mr. Gilmore from two different angles, the legitimate and motion picture. This matinee idol has appeared in films as a star only in important productions recently, among which was "The Penitentes," a Griffith feature. To be exact, Mr. Gilmore departed from California October 30 and will arrive at the Staten Island studio of the Raver Film Corporation Friday morning, November 5. In the legitimate, Paul Gilmore appeared in such productions as "At Yale," "The Boys of Company B," "Captain Debonnaire," "Mistress Nell," in support of Henrietta Crosman and in an all-star revival of "The Three Musketeers." With the above vehicles he also toured the United States. However, it is the south and southwest that claimed him as their own, because of his long stretch of success in that territory at the head of his own companies, presenting "The Mummy and the Humming Bird," "King Charles," "The Tyranny of Tears," "The Call of the North," "The Havoc," and the aforesaid "At Yale," "Captain Debonnaire," and "The Boys of Company B." Mr. Gilmore is a splendid example of that doubly valuable class of theatrical celebrity popular in both domains of the profession and in all parts of this country. Police Chief Backs Water A typical illustration of the arbitrariness of a certain class of public officials toward motion pictures was provided in Newark, N. J., last week, when the chief of police of that city ordered an exhibitor not to show the widely-known V. L. S. E. feature, "The Blindness of Virtue." The exhibitor immediately got into communication with F. F. Hartich, the manager of the New York office's booking department of the V. L. S. E. An attorney himself, and supported by General Manager Walter W. Irwin, a counsellor of note, Mr. Hartich immediately began to make thing hum. Among the preliminary steps to legal action, Mr. Hartich submitted the tribute to the great moral lesson "The Blindness of Virtue" teaches, by Rev. Thomas B. Gregory. He also pointed out the inconsistency of the action at this time, in view of the fact that "The Blindness of Virtue" had already been shown in Newark eleven times. Thereupon, the police department apologized to the exhibitor and informed him that he might show this play at any time that he desired.