Motography (Jan-Jun 1914)

324 MOTOGRAPHY Vol. XI, No. 9. C. Leavitt and Max Schagrin and will be a combined vaudeville and moving picture theater located on the east side of Market street, between Williamson and Marion avenues. This building will cost approximately $25,000. Work will be rushed without delay and will be completed about the middle of August. Architects Robertson & Fahnestock have been commissioned to make the plans for a photo play house to be built on Ludlow, near Telford, in Clifton, by the Clifton Amusement Company. The house is to contain 750 seats. The Miller-Oak theater situated at the intersection of those two streets in Columbus, will shortly be opened to the public under the management of Henry Moon. The Williams Amusement Company, Cleveland. $5,000; by E. E. Williams, B. M. Williams and J. P. McGrath. Ohio-West Virginia Realty Company is constructing a photo play house at the northeast corner of Fifteenth and Central avenue, Cincinnati, at a cost of $110,000. OKLAHOMA. Southern States Film company, 27 West 7th street, Oklahoma City, will operate plans here and New Orleans to manufacture moving picture films ; install machinery, including tanks, etc.; Carl D. Pryor, president; A. E. Cooper, vice-president; P. V. Steddom, secretary; Ralph Stults, treasurer. (Lately noted incorporated $25,000 capital stock.) PENNSYLVANIA. Plans for a theater to seat 1,200 persons have been made and work will be started about June 1 by Silverman Brothers, of Altoona, who purchased the Einstein property, at 221 Market street, Harrisburg, fronting 122 feet on Market street and 125 feet deep. The price was approximately $75,000. Plans were filed by Samuel Morrison for a stone and brick moving picture theater, 44.6 by 110 feet, at the southeast corner of Sixty-first and Vine streets, Philadelphia, for Herman Beyer & Co. The building will cost about $5,700. Film Theater, Forty-sixth and Market streets, Philadelphia. Brick and terra cotta, one-story. By William Mitchell, builder. John McKenna & Son have a contract for a one-story brick moving picture theater at Nos. 905-907 South Fifth street, Philadelphia, for Henry E. Silk. Sauer & Hahn are preparing plans for a moving picture theater with a seating capacity of 2,000, on Seventeenth street, below Venango, Philadelphia, for the Tioga Realty Company. The building will have a frontage of 42 feet on Seventeenth street, and the main body of the building at the rear will be about 120 feet square. The structure will cost about $50,000. The Lam Building company is estimating on a picture theater, 45 by 100 feet, to be built at 2907 to 11 North Fifth street, Philadelphia, for Levick & Waldow. Levick and Waldo have purchased from D. J. Smyth et al. the premises 736-38 South 52d street, Philadelphia, lot 60 by 100 feet, on which a moving picture theater to seat 750 persons will be built. Lam Building company is estimating on plans and specificaat Front and Hope streets, Philadelphia, for Margolin and Block. 40 by 120 feet. The architecture will follow the French lines. Larn Building company is estimating on plans and specifications for a one-story brick moving picture theater, to be erected at Front and Hope streets, Philadelphia, for Margohn and Block. The new Cosy moving picture theater, at 2416 Union avenue, Altoona, was formally 'Opened to the public December 20. The theater is owned by M. 0. and M. G. Orner and was erected by M. V. Orner, contractor. The building is of brick, 45 by 75 feet, and will comfortably seat 400 people. A. Raymond Raff, E. E. Hollenback. Joseph McCort, George Hogg, Freund and Seidenbach, A. Whitehead and Samuel Harting are estimating on plans for a two-story moving picture theater. 49 by 114 feet, at Germantown avenue and Graver's lane, Philadelphia. Sauer and Hahn are the architects. John McKenna and Son have secured a permit for the erection of a one-story brick moving picture theater 37.6 by 76.6 feet, at 1526-28 West Cumberland street, Philadelphia, for W. J. Vernon, to cost $8,000. Henon and Boyle, architects. A. Whitehead, incorporated, took out a permit for the erection of a one-story brick moving picture theater 33.3 by 86.2 feet, on the west side of Germantown avenue, south of Graver's lane, Philadelphia, for the Sagamore Realty company, to cost $11,000, Sauer and Hahn, architects. William Libby, Philadelphia, owner of the picture theater at Pen-Mar, which was damaged by snow weight, has decided to rebuild the structure, on a larger scale. George Hogg has been granted a permit for the erection of a one-story brick and terra cotta moving picture theater 30 feet by 113 feet 3 inches, at 412-14 Market street, Philadelphia, for May H. Powers, to cost $10,000. Hoffman Company, architects. E. Allen Wilson is preparing plans for a moving picture theater to be erected in West Philadelphia. Building will be one story, 50 by 100 feet; seating capacity, 800; cost, $12,000. Plans will be ready for bids in the near future. B. Bornstein and E. Hollenbeck company are estimating on a moving picture theater to be erected at 765-67 South Second street, Philadelphia. Building to be one story, brick and terra cotta, 36 by 114 feet; seating capacity, 500. Fred N. Greisler, architect. Grant Bolmer, of Franklin, will open, about February 1, a new picture house to be known as the Park. The theater will have a seating capacity of 700, and its programs will be composed of Mutual releases. Famous Players Film Service, Inc.. Pennsylvania; total capital, $12,000; amount in Indiana, $1,200; to lease and rent picture films; J. B. Clark R. A. Rowland, J. Steele. Plans were filed with the Bureau of Building Inspection by George H. Hogg for a one-story brick and terra cotta moving picture theater, 30 by 113.3 feet, on Market street, near Fourth, Philadelphia, for Mae H. Powers, to cost $9,500. The Colonial moving picture theater and apartment building, Merchant street, Ambridge, was destroyed by fire with $25,000 loss. Lam Building Company are estimating on revised plans and specifications for a brick and stone moving picture theater to be erected at Front street and Susquehanna avenue Philadelphia, for Margolin and Block, 203 South Fifth street. The Felt Amusement Company has commissioned Stuckert and Sloan to plan a fireproof moving picture theater to seat 1,000, to be built at the northwest corner of Fiftysecond and Locust streets, Philadelphia. SOUTH DAKOTA. D. F. McPherson has started work on the remodeling of the building at 216 South Main street. Aberdeen, preparatory to installing a motion picture house to be known as the Lyric' TENNESSEE. American Photoplay Theaters Co., Memphis, capital. $50,000; incorporators, W. T. McDowell. C. N. Wilhoite. W. B. Bell. F. S. Omberg and Geo. J. Alban. TEXAS. The Breish airdome in Uvalde, has been leased bv Tom Kane and J. W. Griffith who will open it shortly. WISCONSIN. The Yandette theater, in Manitowoc, has been sold by I. S Ludwig to B. H. Healy of Appleton. and the transfer will take place March 1. Contract for the moving picture theater that is to be erected at the north end of Barstow street bridge, Eau Claire, has been let to the Hoeppner-Bartlett Co.. and the construction work will start soon. It will be a concrete and brick structure and will have all the latest improvements. The Park moving picture theater on Mitchell street. Milwaukee, will be remodeled. Its new dimensions will be 24x120, and the theater will be fireproof and have an indirect lighting system. WYOMING. Sheridan's new motion picture theater, the Gem. was opened recently under the management of Mr. Bezold. A part of Villa's telegraph corps snapped by the Mutual camera a feu hours before partx zvas attacked by Federals.