Motography (Apr-Jun 1916)

May 13, 1916. MOTOGRAPHY 1125 A $3,000,000 company has been launched to build a large moving picture house at Fourth and Market streets, San Francisco, articles of incorporation of the Market-street Realty Company having been filed. The incorporators are Mark L. Gerstle, Leo J. Clayburg, J. J. Jacobi, Charles Schlessinger, Herbert L. Rothchild, J. M. Rothchild and Albert Dernham. The capital stock consists of 30,000 shares of $100 each, one-half preferred, one-half common. Each incorporator has subscribed for one share. Delaware Peerless Feature Film Exchange, Inc., manufacture, sell and license moving picture films; capital, $37,500. Idaho The city council has passed an ordinance permitting picture shows to remain open in Pocatello on Sunday. Illinois The lobby of the Grand theater in Macomb is being decorated. An ordinance requiring all moving picture theaters to pay a license of $50 a year, instead of $25, as now required, was passed by the Moline city council. The ordinance was prepared nearly a month ago, but had never been definitely acted upon. Fred Longnecker has been granted a license to operate a picture show in Pontiac. He will remodel the Burke building in Madison street at once. Acme Theater Supply Company, 181183 North La Salle street, Chicago; $2,500. To deal in moving picture machines and films. Claude F. Smith, Wm. W. Smith and L. B. Smith. Work has been started on the Airdome in Sterling to be operated by Greenough & Flinn. Indiana The Kolograph company, Indianapolis; capital, $50,000; to manufacture motion picture machines, parts and accessories. The directors of the company are L. D. Kohlmyer, William C. Heueisert, Charles N. Craig, L. G. Deschler, Carl L. Rost and A. W. McKeand. Unicorn Film Service Corporation, a Delaware corporation, qualified to do business in this state; $16,250 of _ its capital stock is represented in Indiana; R. W. McBride, Indianapolis, Ind., is named as agent. Iowa A number of cities in Iowa of more than 15,000 inhabitants which have no city ordinances at all with reference to theater fire escape regulations is being inspected by commissioner A. L. Urick and his inspectors. Work has been started on the new motion picture theater on Main street, Grinnell. Mart & Son is the owner and they have had plans drawn for a very modern theater to seat 600. Cost $20,000. F. L. Keith, owner of the Lyric and Colonial theaters, has sold the Colonial to E. L. Jones, of Marshalltown, who has taken possession. Mr. Keith expects to remodel the Lyric and increase its seating capacity. Kansas • Fire caused by the explosion of a film in the Iris theater, Topeka, owned by H. S. Montgomery, caused a slight loss. Louisiana Algiers can boast of a very beautiful motion picture theater known as Foto's Folly theater, with a seating capacity of $1,600. Massachusetts The petition for a moving picture license for the Orient Heights section of East Boston has been withdrawn. Michigan Nearly a thousand people visited Battle Creek's newest motion picture theater, the Park, which opened April 9. The new motion picture house is exceedingly novel and artistic. Harry Saylor is manager. Minnesota The Warren Investment Company, 165 West Seventh street, St. Paul, has been granted a license to operate a picture theater. Permit has been granted to Primock, Labovich & Michael, 135 Eaton avenue, St. Paul, to erect a picture theater. J. Barnet of St. Paul, proprietor of the only all-night moving picture theater in Minneapolis, has been denied a renewal of his license on complaint of the Minneapolis Humane Society that children were allowed in the place after curfew hours. The theater is located at 305 Hennepin avenue. Garfield Schwartz and company have secured the contract from the Van WieTyre company to erect the new "B B" theater on South Main street, Rochester. The building, when completed will cost approximately $40,000 and the contract provides for its completion in eleven weeks. The seating capacity will be over nine hundred. Six hundred will be accommodated upon the first floor and three hundred and fifty in the balcony. An incline will run from the first floor to the balcony, and this will do away with the steps. The theater will be handsomely decorated. Frank T. Gaylord of Minneapolis will be resident manager. Missouri J. D. Wineland, manager of the Mystic theater in Webb City and of the Princess theater in Joplin, has obtained a ten-year lease on the Auditorium, between Fifth and Sixth streets on Joplin street, which will be converted into a moving picture theater. The Electric theater, Galena, is being rebuilt. Montana Two new motion picture showhouses are now being erected in Livingston. One is an entirely new building, to cost $40,000, being erected by A. W. Miles, and the other is an addition to the Van Brocklin block. Nebraska The office and theater building being erected in Hastings by William Branch has been leased by Charles A. Beghtol of Denver. The latter expects to take possession by September 1. The first floor will be used exclusively for a moving picture theater, which, Mr. Beghtol and the designers say, will have no superior in the west. The lobby will be especially elaborate, with tile floor and marble trimmings.' The installation of an orchestra organ is contemplated. Merna will shortly have a picture show to be operated by Jacquot and Foster. Ansley's new picture show has been opened. New Jersey Announcement has been made by Joseph E. Strieker, one of the incorporators of the Hywil company, which took title to the German Reformed church property, New Brunswick, that the building is to be entirely remodeled into a structure containing three stores and a motion picture theater. The improvements will cost approximately $15,000. New York Woodruff Associates, Inc., notion picture films, accessories, musical instruments; $16,000; J. E. Woodruff, A. Smith, W. Hughes, New York. Artho-graph Film Corporation, motion picture exhibition and vaudeville, $10,000; Jos. Popper, Walter Morson, Geo. V. Sandberg, Brooklyn. The Arts Producing company, motion pictures, general advertising, etc., $50,000; John F. Lilley, George L. Fox, Pierre P. Pullis, Manhattan. Savoy Film corporation, film exchange, brokerage, copyrights on moving pictures, plays, theaters, $15,000; D. W. Bonnelli, P. Lossito, R. Cerreta, Dougan Hills. A. Paslillo is adding another story to his picture theater in Brooklyn . P. & P. Amusement corporation, theatrical and motion picture business, $1,000; Jack Allen, Solon Schiller, D. F. Mayer, Manhattan. George Coaster Company, Inc., public amusement enterprises, motion pictures; $5,000; J. H. Anshutz, H. and N. Bayley, 3750 Broadway. Ecotalor Art Photodrama, Inc., Bronx, motion pictures, theatrical, $50,000. F. N. Magrath, G. Colucci, E. C. Taylor, Jr., 2481 Creston avenue. Made in America Film Corporation, motion pictures, photographic, publishing, $50,000; S. D. Drane, T. W. Ferron, G. E. Toulopoulos. Clayton Ward of Hornell will erect a moving picture theater on Dolbeer Place and South Main street, Perry. It will be 77x100 feet. William Greenwood, operator in the Battery theater, 27 Washington street, New York, received burns on the hands and face when a section of film became ignited as it was being inserted in the projecting machine. Mr. Greenwood was preparing the machine for the evening. The Niagara Falls Motion Picture company, to produce motion picture films ; capital, $100,000. Incorporators, H. Cyril Broad, John R. Wood, A. Linatty, Buffalo, N. Y. Driscoll Brothers and company have started work of excavation for the new Strand theater at 310 and 312 East State street, Ithaca. The playhouse will cost about $75,000, equipped. It is to be built for William Dillon of Cortland. The four-story Eighty-sixth street theater, 163-169 East Eighty-fifth street, and abutting three-story building, 162 East Eighty-sixth street, have been sold by the Eighty-sixth Street Construction company to the Midvale Amusement company, controlled by Marcus Loew. The theater will be used for moving pic