Motography (Jan-Mar 1916)

358 MOTOGRAPHY Vol. XV. No. 7. pages, to be writen by one of the greatest writers in the country, to tell this wonderful story of the motion picture industry. The history of the motion picture is a fairy tale. It is absolutely unbelievable to a man who comes in from the outside, and views it, as I did, three years ago for the first time, to note, for one instance, a Galician Jew, a poor man, coming to this country with perhaps $4 in his pocket, with nothing except the tremendous skill which he had as a lens grinder; to follow the history of that man and his struggles, as he came from poverty and emerged into the splendor and magnificence of the riches that he now has, through the motion picture industry; if I could tell you that story as it was told to me, as it will appear when the real biography of the motion picture is written, it would move you first to tears and then to interest, and finally you would share with him that splendid triumph which he now enjoys. I say these things must be told at some time, but this is neither the time nor the place. I simply want to say, before I sit down, that this dinner, the first dinner of the Motion Picture Board of Trade of America, a lusty infant of only four months old, is a fair semblance of what will be in the future ; because, ladies and gentlemen, this motion picture industry in which we are engaged and which we so dearly love is but struggling to express itself at the present time. It is still enmeshed and hidden and tangled by the threads of discord, by the fact that the industry itself does not know itself thoroughly, by the fact that the men in it are just beginning to find what a wonderful force they have within their grasp. The Board of Trade, or the organization — I care not by what name you call it — that has the least help or assistance in shaping the destinies of this tremendous industry, in making them go for the right, in stabilizing the industry, in eliminating from it all the things that are bad, whether they be things of business practice, whether they be things of morals, or what not — I say the institution which has the least part in doing this, and thus in upbuilding and standardizing this great industry, will live in future generations and will be thanked for it. "I know of no man who can get more fun out of misfortune than the one I am going to ask now to close the speeches of this evening," said the toastmaster, "for it is almost a misfortune to be the last speaker so late at night when everybody is sitting there secretly hoping that he will not say very much. How much he will say depends upon how much you laugh at him and how much interest you show: The Rev. Dr. Cyrus Townsend Brady. "How do you do?" said the Rev. Dr. Brady. "Good night!" The guests attending the banquet were : Mrs. Nellie Anderson, A. W. Atwater, W. W. Atkinson, Charles Abrams, Carl Anderson, Hunter Bennett, C. E. Beecroft, Mrs. Stuart Blackton, Rex Beach, George Baker, Graham Baker, Jack Brawn, Louise Beaudet, Van Dyke Brooke, Fred J. Beecroft, Eugene V. Brewster, Harry D. Brewster, Leon J. Bamberger, George Balsdon, Fulton Brylawski, Raymond S. Binder, Mrs. J. W. Binder, F. J. Bird, William Barry, J. A. Berst, George F. Blaisdell, Mrs. George F. Blaisdell, King Baggot, Harry Benham, Whitman Bennett, William Brandt, J. E. Brulatour, C. T. Bittner, L. F. Blumenthal, Naomi Childers, Howard Chandler Christy, F. K. Cannock, Charles R. Condon, Merritt Crawford, Harry J. Cohn, Paul H. Cromelin, J. F. Coufal, Clarence J. Caine, J. P. Chalmers, J. F. Chalmers, Miss E. J. Chalmers, Robert W. Chambers, Mrs. Robert W. Chambers, Harvey A. Cochrane, Airs. Harvey A. Cochrane, Mrs. Bainbridge Colby, R. H. Cochrane, Mrs. R. H. Cochrane, P. D. Cochrane, Mrs. P. D. Cochrane, Harry Cohn, Jack Cohn, Mrs. Harrv A. Cochrane, Frank Daniels, Harrv Davenport, W. H. Donaldson, Lvnde Denig, Mark M. Dintcnfass, Joseph W. En-el, Edward Earl, Mrs. Edward Earl, Airs. S. M. Field, Air. Samuel M. Field, Mr. I. H. Finn, Felix S. Feist, Mrs. Felix S. Feist, R. T. Farnum, John C. Finn, Hugh Ford, Arthur S. Friend, Daniel Frohman, Mrs. I. C. Graham, R. G. Garrick, L. J. Gasnicr, John W. Grey, J. E. Graef, Lambert Guenther, Jesse 1. Goldberg, Walter E. Greene, Joseph Golden, Kendall F. Gillett, Paul Gulick, Philip Gleichman", Mrs. Philip Gleichman, Charles \Y. Goddard, Samuel B. Goldfish, Ben Goetz, C. B Hi nl i 1, David Horsley, William Humphrey, Guv L. Harrington, J. II. Ilalll,cn>, F. I)." ITorkheimcr, C. B. Harmon, Fred Hawley, Edgar B. Hattrick, Kenneth Hodkinson, W. W. Hodkinson, Hugh Hoffman, M. II. Hoffman, Mrs. M. H. Hoffman, Mrs. Waller W. Irwin. Ralph Incc, Mrs. Ralph lnce, Owen Johnson, Arthur Janus, William A. J, .bust,,,,, Mrs. William A. iohn ton, [oseph Kilgour, Maxwell Karger, Arthur Kane, A. A. Kaufman, Charles Kessell, Dorothy Kelly, Stanley Kingsbury, Felix Kahn, Vrthur Leslie, Florence Fa Badie, (apt. Harrv Lam bert, Roger Lytton, Edwin M. LaRoche, A. J. Lang, Mrs. Carl Laemmle, Jesse L. Lasky, Tracy H. Lewis, Al Lichtman, Otto Lederer, Siegmund Lubin, Roy L. McCardell, Mrs. Dudley Field Malone, Mrs. Edwin Markham, Mrs. Hudson Maxim, AntonioMoreno, Mary Maurice, Harry Morev. James Morrison, Garry McGarry, Miss Estelle J. Murphy, Felix Malitz, Joseph Miles, F. L. Masters, R. W. McFarland, Leslie Mason, A. MacArdiur, Iohn F. Miller. Miss Violet Mersereau, Mrs. Edward A. MacAlanus, J. J. McCarthy, Hy Maver, Matt Moore, P. J. Morgan, Harry Meyers, J. A. Milligan, Aubrey Mittenthal, Harry Mittenthal, J. A. McKinney, Mrs. Tom Moore, Tom Moore. Wilfred North, Lee A. Ochs, Evart Overton, Ingvald C. Oes, Walton W. O'Hara, Mrs. Walton W. O'Hara, William Oldknow, H. HPoppe, Kate Price, P. A. Parsons, Carl H. Pierce, Mrs. Carl H. Pierce, Paul Panzer, Raymond Pawley, O. A. Powers and guests, L. J. Rubenstein, Mrs. L. J. Rubenstein, Terry Ramsaye, J. V. Ritchey, A. F. Rock, Charles Richman, B. A. Rolfe, S. L. Rothapfel, Airs. S. L. Rothapfel, Harry L. Reichenbach, Mrs. Harry L. Reichenbach, M. Ramirez-Torres. Frank H. Richardson, Harry Rapf, Arthur B. Reeve, Edward Roskam, Wratterson R. Rothacker, Mrs. Watterson R. Rothacker, Nat W. Rothstein, Mr. D. J. Sullivan, Airs. W. E. Shallenberger, G. H. Sheldon, Penrhyn Stanlaws, Victor Smith, William Shea, S. M. Spedon, Anita Stewart, Paul Scardon, Alax Speigel, Edward Speigel, Edward M. Saunders, Charles K. Stern, William Steiner, Victor Shapiro, A. I. Siegel, Rufus Steele, Airs. Rufus Steele, J. G. Skerritt, W. C. Smith, George B. Seitz, William M. Seabury, Airs. William At. Seabury, Peter Schmid, Winfield R. Sheehan, Robert J. Shores, R. Sanborn, F. W. Singhi, Arthur M. Smallwood, Miss Agnes Smith, Julius Stern, Air. Edwin Thanhouser, Mrs. Edwin Thanhouser, Rose Tapley, Harvey F. Thew, W. C. Toomey, Samuel Trigger, Louis Toseph Vance, Wally Van, C. W. White, Earle Williams, Lillian Walker, Dr. J.' Victor Wilson, H. A. Wyckoff, Thomas G. Wiley, Lloyd D. Willis, John Wylie, Dickson Watts, Leo Wharton, Airs. Leo Wharton, William Welsh, Ben Wilson, Otis F. Wood, Adolph Zukor. The Committee on Arrangements was composed of Walter W. Irwin, chairman, John R. Freuler, Watterson R. Rothaker, Paul Gulick and J. A. McKinney. Famous March Plays Announced In addition to the seven-reel "special" in which Mary Pickford is starred, the Famous Players Film Company has promised for the Paramount program for March three other features of special interest. Jack Barrymore will be seen in "The Man Who Found Himself;" Hazel Dawn is said to have made the most of an excellent opportunity in "The Longest Way Round," and Pauline Frederick is starred again, the story being "Audrey." The Mary Pickford play is one in which she plays an Italian girl and is called "Poor Little Peppina." Kate Jordan wrote it. "The Man Who Found Himself" is from the pen of Willard Mack, author of "Kick In." It is the story of a respectable young man who turns burglar as the result of a blow on the head. Hazel Dawn has the role of a young girl whose father is at war with his next door neighbor. The neighbor has a son the girl hasn't seen. They meet and Fall in love and then the trouble begins. Pauline Frederick's vehicle is from the novel of the same name by Mary Johnston in the stage version of which Maggie Mitchell was starred. Rothapfel Uses Mutual News The Mutual Weekly is growing in popularity. Not only is it shown in the Palace theater of New xt mi City, which is a proof of excellence, hut Samuel I.. Rothapfel is now using it on Broadway. Keith's Royal theater, leading vaudeville house of the Bronx, New York City, has installed it, and beginning with February 6. it will replace another news reel at the Market Street theater in San Francisco.