Motography (Apr-Jun 1916)

May 13, 1916. MOTOGRAPHY 1101 Arrangements for the Mutual exhibit are in the hands of Hopp Hadley and J. G. Rohlfe. An innovation at the exposition at the Garden will be the actual photographing of a motion picture play. A typical studio where pictures will be produced, assembled and the mysteries surrounding the making of pictures will be exposed. The pictures will be developed, printed and joined as soon as possible and thrown on the screen without editing. As a further means of entertainment a large stage will be constructed at the Fourth Ave. end of the building which will contain the largest motion picture screen ever built and all the latest feature plays and comedies will be shown. One day each will be devoted to Exhibitors' Day, Manufacturers' Day, Bankers' Day, Fire Insurance Day, Projection Day, Board of Trade Day and Bureau of Standards Day. Each day has a peculiar significance in connection with the picture industry and addresses will be made by prominent speakers on subjects applicable to the day. Among the important subjects to be discussed are the Educational Value of Motion Pictures taking up their future in the schools and colleges ; the Motion Picture Machine and Its Evolution; the Value of the Motion Picture in Crime Detection and Police Work ; The Moralizing Force of Motion Pictures, a subject especially to clergymen and church workers ; Recruiting the Army and Navy by Motion Pictures, which has been found highly successful in the present European War, and Motion Pictures and Commercial Progress, a subject of wide scope appealing to men in every branch of business. A daily newspaper of standard size, composed of eight pages of motion picture news, will be circulated. This will be called the Motion Picture Daily Trade Show Bulletin, and will be edited and written by men who write exclusively of pictures and the picture trade. Among other attractions is the dancing space which has been set aside in the center of the Garden, which is large enough to accommodate three thousand dancers. A band and several orchestras will provide concert and dance music. CHAPLIN IN THIRD SUIT Noted $670,000 Picture Comedian Is Kept Busy Starting Suits and Being Sued — Several Legal Tangles Charlie Chaplin's latest success seems to be a tangle of legal proceedings from which it may cost him a considerable sum of money to become untangled;. While a hearing was in progress in the Supreme Court on the injunction instituted by Charlie Chaplin to restrain the V-L-S-E and Essanay companies from releasing the film of Chaplin's burlesque on Carmen in four reels, a process server was in the courtroom seeking the comedian with papers in a breach of contract suit instituted by the Essanay Company for $500,000. And in consequence of the injunction proceedings instituted by Sidney Chaplin as agent of Charles Chaplin, the Essanay Film Manufacturing Company have brought in the Federal District Court a similar proceeding against the Chaplins. In its complaint Essanay states that if the Chaplins succeed in obtaining an injunction in the State Supreme Court the company Avill sustain a very serious loss, probably amounting to $500,000. The film com pany, therefore, asks the Federal Court to enjoin the Chaplins from taking any further proceedings in the State Supreme Court until the United States District Court for the eastern division of the Northern District Court of Illinois shall have passed on a motion to transfer or remand the suit pending there, and if the order to transfer or remand is not granted the injunction asked for by the company be made perpetual. A motion was made to dismiss the application filed by Charles Chaplin against the Essanay and the V-LS-E to restrain those companies from distributing the Chaplin burlesque on Carmen but decision in the case was withheld until the court could decide some of the intricate legal questions involved. It is claimed there is no objection to the picture being released in two reels but the objection was based upon the use of the comedian's name as author of the longer version with its alleged unlawful interpolations. It was urged that the case is out of the jurisdiction of the New York courts as the defendant was an Illinois corporation and Chaplin was not a resident of New York State. Judge Delehanty reserved decision on the case. Expoj >sition Finds Prettiest Girl The following advertisement appearing in the female help wanted columns of New York newspapers brought many aspiring applicants : Wanted — The prettiest girl in New York to appear as the moving picture muse at the motion picture exposition at Grand Central Palace. Apply 12 to 3, Hall's Studio, to-day. From the numerous young ladies assembled Miss Evelyn Mansfield was chosen, and it was explained to her that during the exposition her name was to be changed to Mettuccep, and she is to become a Grecian goddess. The name was created by combining the first letters of the Grecian divinities, Thalis, Melpomene, Terpsichore and the other nine Greek goddesses, because Mettuccep is to combine the qualities of each of her sisters. Mettuccep will be a conspicuous exhibit of the film exposition. She will be encumbered by a papier mache ball and chain, handcuffs and manacles. A make-believe State Board of Censors will hold the nether ends of chains binding the muse. The make Theda Bara in her new Fox film, "The Eternal Sapho.''