Motography (Apr-Jun 1916)

May 13, 1916. MOTOGRAPHY 1113 even when the case is going against him. The highest point of suspense in the play is reached when, while the jury is arguing the case of Jerry, and Charles' friends are receiving news of favorable election returns, Charles, alone by the fire, burns the note written by Peggy which would clear his brother. Then, overcome by excitement, he drops dead of heart failure and it seems that Jerry is surely lost. The play ends with a flash of the morning paper, telling in one column of the death of the newly elected governor, and of the acquittal of Jerry. Cecil Van Auker is Charles Torrance, Ruth Saville plays Peggy Wood and Evelyn Page is Margaret Conway. Others in the cast are Adelaide Bronti, George Routh and Walter Spencer. The play was directed by Melvin Mayo, under the supervision of Captain Wilbert Melville. EXHIBITORS PLAN FORUM The grievance committee will take up disputes between members and arbitrate them. It is believed this committee may do much to prevent the price-cutting that has sometimes occurred heretofore as the result of neighborhood differences. The house committee will see to the entertainment of the wives and families of members on meeting nights and if desired secure seats at the Triangle theater, which is the official meeting place of the organization. Associated Motion Picture Exhibitors of Brooklyn Plan Forum to Be Held at Each Meeting — Committees Appointed Although the Associated Motion Picture Exhibitors of Brooklyn, New York State League, Local No. 3, has only been in existence about a month they have already made their influence felt in the motion picture world. It was at a meeting of this League that J. Stuart Blackton addressed the Brooklyn exhibitors in the interest of peace and succeeded in his efforts to settle the exposition differences between the exhibitors and the Motion Picture Board of Trade. The success of this meeting opened the eyes of the League to the good that might be accomplished by affording an opportunity to discuss the different problems of the industry and having men of note address them from time to time on the different subjects under agitation. The Brooklyn exhibitors have decided, therefore, that they will hold their semimonthly meetings in two sections. Preliminary to the business meeting there will be a forum at which a manufacturer or exchange man or some prominent official will be present by invitation and address the exhibitors. The idea of the forum is to afford opportunity for the discussion of matters of mutual interest to the various departments of the film business. John R. Freuler, president of the Mutual Film Corporation, has been invited to address the next forum. The association has in its membership the proprietors of seventy of the best theaters in Brooklyn. The meetings are held at the Triangle theater. President Manheimer has appointed the following standing committees: Executive Board — Mr. Bland, Mr. Hollander, Mr. Israel, Mr. Goodman, Mr. Foster, Mr. Sockoloff and Mr. Sanders. Membership Committee — Mr. Israel, chairman ; Mr. Schwartz, Mr. Hollander, Mr. Ensler and Mr. Christian. Law and Legislation — Mr. Hollander, chairman ; Mr. Ward. Mr. Lane, Mr. Mooney and Mr. Sanders. Grievance Committee — Mr. Sanders, chairman ; Mr. Sockoloff, Mr. Bland, Mr. Cronides and Mr. Goodman. House Committee — Mr. Forster, chairman ; Mr. Fulmer, Mr. Askin, Mr. Warshawer and Mr. Salkin. It is intended that the law and legislation committees shall keep an eye on matters in Albany and in the New York City Hall, so that no adverse legislation shall be passed without a hearing and also to recommend legislation that will improve conditions in the film industry. Unique Filming Across Nation Line It is hard to get ahead of the alert moving picture men who are always endeavoring to meet the demands of the public. Even the federal laws can be evaded at times as is demonstrated by the subterfuge by which the pictures of the Johnson-Willard fight at Havana may yet be shown to the American public. The law prohibits the pictures of fights not made in this country but the ingenious picture men overcame this difficulty by restaging the fight just across the Canadian border while the picture machine standing on American soil rephotographed the film. A party consisting of James J. Johnson, Lawrence M. D. McGuire, Harold T. Edwards, Richard Parr and two or three camera men pitched a tent over the boundry line near Lacolle, half being on Canadian and half on American ground. A table about three feet in width was placed in the center of the tent, one side of the table standing in Canada and the other in New York. The pictures which had been brought from Toronto were placed on the table on the Canadian side, and the cameramen set up their machine on the same table in New York. The pictures were then unreeled and photographed as they passed from one reel to another by the cameramen. Federal authorities seized the films as being an unlawful importation. War Argued Across Continent Following out its policy of bringing home to the nation the urgent need of "Preparedness" through the visualization upon the motion picture screen of the arguments of Theodore Roosevelt, former Secretary of War Garrison, Henry Reuterdahl, Frederick Palmer, and other statesmen and military experts, the Paramount Pictures Corporation in a future release of the Pictograph will show Professor David Starr Jordan, Chancellor of Leland Stanford University, and Congressman Augustus P. Gardner, opposing poles in the controversy, debating the question of whether the United States adopt more actively defensive measures. Jordan spoke before the camera in California. Gardner was photographed in Washington. Three reasons against increase of armament are tersely stated by Jordan. Gardner replies with all of the tencentimeter guns of the preparedness vocabulary. New Film and Supply House The Nashville Film and Supply Company, the first full-fledged moving picture supply company to be organized in Nashville, has taken up headquarters at 233J/2 Fifth avenue, north. The company is composed of Theo. D. Mousson, manager; L. O. Rathers, supply department; Cloud D. Ekhardt, assistant manager. The new company will equip road shows of every description and all kinds of moving picture parts and supplies will be handled by them.