Motography (Apr-Jun 1916)

1022 MOTOGRAPHY Vol. XV, No. 19. EXHIBITORS MEET Discuss Northwestern Motion Picture Exposition and Exhibitors' Convention to Be Held at Twin Cities in May By far the most spirited and enthusiastic meeting ever held there was the session of motion picture exhibitors of the Twin Cities which met in the ball room of the West Hotel in Minneapolis. James Gilosky, president of the Motion Picture Exhibitors' Association of the Northwest, presided. Mr. Gilosky emphasized the importance of the motion picture industry and urged the exhibitors to co-operate in any movement tending to bring the public into closer touch with it. The coming convention at Minneapolis in May was discussed and many plans laid to make it the biggest and most notable ever held. All promised their heartiest co-operation to make this exposition a success. The Minneapolis exhibitors are planning to hold another meeting at the West Hotel to discuss further the plans for the exposition. The speakers at the meeting were James E. Keough, D. C. McClellan, Dave Rodgers, Treasurer Van Duzee, W. A. Steffes, Harry Green, Henry P. Greene, Thomas Hamlin, publisher of Amusements; J. B. Reisman, Charlie Ellsworth and others. President Gilosky invited the Minneapolis exhibitors to meet in St. Paul with the exhibitors of that city and a number attended this session in the afternoon. I. B. Crissman, representing the National Carbon Company of Cleveland, was present at the meeting, and he is again congratulating himself on being the first to sign a contract for a big display at the May exposition. Mr. Crissman says his company is planning to make an elaborate display. Our valued contemporary, Amusements, publishes a warning to all exhibitors in the northwest against a new concern which it is rumored is going to locate in the Twin Cities and peddle films at fifty cents a reel. It is said this concern bought a few carloads of film, which has gone the rounds of practically every picture house in the country, and changed the titles and sub-titles so that the exhibitor would not know he had played the subject before, and is offering them at this bargain price. If this is done it is quite possible that there may be some exhibitors who may not think enough of their regular patrons and proceed to book this "junk" at such alluring prices. The name of the concern which will attempt to create chaos in the northwest is not positively known, but it is known that any concern which attempts to rent film at such a price must have some sort of nigger in the woodpile. The Friedman Film Corporation, successor to the Western Kriterion Film Company of Minneapolis, will move into its new quarters at 300-302 Film Exchange building, 16-18 North street, Minneapolis, the first of May, and will be at home at that time to all the exhibitors and their friends who expect to attend the convention. The Kimball & Cobb Film Manufacturing Company, Minneapolis has been chosen as the official moving picture photographers for the convention. This company will make 2,000 feet of film during the exposition, and the two-reel picture, the name of which will be announced later, will be offered to the exhibitors of the Northwest for bookings immediately after the convention. A studio will be erected at the armory, and the Kimball & Cobb cameramen will make pictures there afternoons and nights throughout the convention. Scenes for the two-reeler will be taken at the armory and about the city. Alice Rinaldo with Horsley Alice Rinaldo, who was engaged by the David Horsley company to appear only in one picture, "The Love Liar," portrayed the characters in that play in such a forceful and striking manner that Mr. Horsley has retained her as a member of his company and Miss Rinaldo will take one of the leading roles, that of the worldly woman of the vampire type, in the new Crane Wilbur release, "The Conscience of John David." Detroit Exhibitors Elect President A. J. Kleist of Pontiac has been elected to the office of president of the Detroit Exhibitors' League. Mr. Kleist was appointed by the league to fill the place left vacant by the resignation of Herman Speyer, who, having disposed of the ownership of the Eagle theater, can no longer claim membership in the Exhibitors' organization. Txvo of the delightfully spooky scenes from the new International drama "The Mysteries of iWyra."