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MOTOGRAPHY
Vol. XVI, No. 5.
Williams, really attracted the attention of several film men Avho talked to her about work in pictures. Her portrait was sketched by J. Leroy Johnston of Amusements magazine.
The aspirations of a number of would-be-film players were realized when Rose Tapley of the Vitagraph Company picked out of the passers-by types to enact a scenario. She directed these players herself in their first appearance before the camera.
A dance was held every night on the second floor of the Coliseum, and this proved one of the most popular spots in the hall.
Musty Suffer suffered some more for the benefit of admiring throngs who surrounded the Kleine booth to watch.
From the Vitagraph booth a miniature picture show was given on a transparent screen with the projector back of it. "Trans Lux" is the name of the new screen and it seems to "work" in great shape, following the statement made some time ago in the Scientific American that such picture-catchers were practical.
In the official program for the National Convention the F. I. L. M. Club of Chicago took a page headed "Best wishes to exhibitors attending the Sixth Annual National Convention at Chicago," and followed by the names of the following club members :
S. Abel, V. L. S. E. Co.; W. H. Bell, W. H. Bell Feature Film Co.; L. J. Schlaifer, Unicorn Film Co.; H. E. Belford, Kriterion Film Co.; F. M. Brockell, Famous Players Film Co.; C. W. Bunn, Pathe Film Exchange; J. L. Friedman, Celebrated Players Film Co.; E. J. Flaherty, Universal Film Co.; Thos. F. Fleming, Eagle Film Co.; L. A. Getzler, Mutual Film Corporation; Harry Weiss, Central Film Co.; S. B. Griever, General Feature Film Co.; J. M. Hayes, Picture Playhouse Film Co.; S. B. Hoy, Hoy Reporting Service; E. C. Jensen, World Film Corporation; E. H. Kuh, E. L. K. Film Co.; L. Laemmle, Laemmle Film Service; W. J. Mayer, Central Film Corporation; J. M. Leaverton, Lea Bel Co.; Geo. L. Levy, New Film Corporation; M. Lewis, Owl Film Co.; P. R. McNally, F. O. Nelson Feature Film Co.; J. E.
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O'Toole, Fox Film Co.; C. R. Plough, Anti-Trust Film Co.; R. O. Proctor, Metro Pictures Corporation; I. Maynard Schwartz, Reliable Feature Film Co.; R. E. Seery, Triangle Film Co.; L. B. Shafford, Barker-Swan Film Co.; W. R. Scates, General Film Co.; H. A. Spanuth, Central Film Co.; I. Van Ronkel, Blue Bird Photoplay Co.; M. G. Watkins, American Standard Motion Picture Co.
Fifty Paramounters at Convention
Nearly half a hundred Paramounters gravitated to the Blackstone Hotel for the private convention1 regarding the publicity question in general and the localizing of advertising in particular, with the elimination of waste given special consideration.
Among the big smokes present were Hiram Abrams, president; William L. Sherry, vice-president; James Steele, treasurer; Adolph Zukor, president Famous Players-Lasky Corporation ; Jesse L. Lasky ; Henry Asher, Boston Paramount manager; Herman Wobber, manager Progressive, California ; A. G. Flintom, Kansas City ; A. T. Seymour, New York; George Mann, Washington.
Indorse Film for Churches
A resolution indorsing motion pictures of an educational character for churches and public schools was adopted at the Wednesday afternoon session of the national convention in Chicago.
The resolution states in part :
"Resolved, That exchanges shall not lease any piece to a church or public school or others that will interfere with any exhibit without consent of the exhibitor, and that all such leases shall conform to local laws and ordinances."
Vitagraph Comedies on General Program
Pretty locations are one of the pleasing features of "A Cheap Vacation," a Vitagraph single part comedy. The theme is very appropriate for hot weather audiences as it deals with the everlasting question, "Where will we spend our vacation?" Two meek husbands decide to summer at a hotel in the mountains, but their wives soon disillusion them and drag them along to camp.
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HERE is what war is. And it is safe to make the hazard that the switchboard under your hat will instantly plug that statement in onto the line of Sherman's gentle remark.
The fellow glimpsed in this little bit of still from the Pathe Weekly is acting out the same small but trenchant drama enacted within the past two or three weeks by thousands of the soldiers of the national guard. He has been called from his business with only a few hours notice. All his home and social ties are pulled apart with the real torture of parting heartstrings.
The scenes at the entraining stations the country over were all that fiction and history have described it to be. In spite of the fears that lurked beneath the surface, the men were cheerful in the presence of their wives, mothers, sisters and sweethearts who were courageously choking back emotion that would not remain concealed. The mingled feelings of hundreds of men
and women and children waving, weeping, laughing as the trains pulled out wrought an atmosphere super-saturated with the emotions of what war means.
"Can I kiss her, ma'am?" said one veteran who was leaving without kith or kin to bid him godspeed. He didn't know the "ma'am" or the child, but both assented without a moment's hesitation. He gave his rough mustache a careful wipe and lifted the little one for his borrowed good-bye kiss.
The various camera reporters have caught these remarkable scenes of mobilization with all the faithfulness that only the films possess. These celluloid newspapers are now telling every nook and corner of the country just what war means, in so far as it has up to now brought about the breaking of home and business associations and the facing of the newly-made soldiers toward the flag and the front. The picturelet shown here is almost a classic of newspaper cameracraft.