Motography (Jan-Jun 1917)

754 MOT.O G RAP H Y Vol. .XVII, No.. 1-4, ATTENTION PATRIOTIC EXHIB PI OCC EVFRY SHAW WITH THF ^TARS ANI1 STRIPR A 60 foot strip (or longer) of a waving flag tinted red. ITORS and ALL Amusements. *>IV0L LILM OIlUTl 111111 intOIHKO RWU OlRlrtd white and blue, at 5. foot intervals, showing dissolves of our three greatest Presidents and closing with the most intense lines of our National Anthem, can be purchased from us. at 10 cents per foot. Chicago Exhibitors and those who come to the city for their shows can purchase these flags at the Regal Film Company, Room 316 Mailers Building, No, 5 South Wabash Avenue. J. E. WILLIS, Pres. & General Manager AMERICAN BIOSCOPE COMPANY. INC. 6247 Broadway, CHICAGO FILM MARKET QUOTATIONS Supplied by Butler, Small & Co., Chicago Bid Asked American Film Company, Inc. 73 78 Biograph Company 10 18 Famous Players-Lasky Corporation 90 105 Lone Star Corporation, pref . . 97 99 LoneStar-Corporation, com. . 35 37 Mutual Film Corporation, pref. 31 35 Mutual Film Corporation, com. 22y2 25 North American Film Corporation, com 20 25 Randolph Film Corporation, pref. (with 50% com.) 60 75 States Film Corporation, com. 25 30 Thanhouser Film Corporation 1 J/^ 2^4* Triangle Film Corporation... 1J/2 2 * Universal Film Manufacturing Company 1 50 *Par $5.00. (Exclusive to Motography) Quotations on Film. Stocks have not changed much during the week. Active stocks were generally lower and some inactive stocks were higher. Artcraft Pictures Corporation: Has now secured David W. Griffith, who is expected to produce several elaborate photoplays a year. This company already has contracts with Mary Pickford, George M. Cohan, Douglas Fairbanks, etc. Biograph Company: Considerable demand has recently developed for stock of this company, and bid price has advanced from $5 to $12 per share. Empire All-Star Corporation: There has been very little trading in stock of this company during the week. This company has adopted a policy of producing pictures faster than they will be distributed, thereby giving the company time to make improvements in the pictures and to arrange for the widest possible distribution. Lone Star Corporation: In spite of reports of large bookings, there has been more stock of this company for sale than market would absorb, and price of common stock has declined to 35. Mutual . Film Corporation: John P. Freuler, president of this company, has been making a tour of all the branch houses of the company to "speed up" selling, and to put" more" "pep" in the organization.Sales of common have1 been reported at "21, and preferred" at "31." The company has secured the services of Miss Billie Rhodes, who will produce 52 onereel comedies to be released through the Mutual. Prudential Pictures Corporation: The stock of this company, amounting to $5,000,000; is now being traded in daily on the New York curb around $4.25 per share. Triangle Film Corporation: The market for this stock has been rather weak, with sales as low as $1.50 per sha.re. This company has recently signed Irene Howley, formerly with the Biograph, Reliance and Metro companies. World Film Corporation: Sales of this stock have been made recently as low as 62yi cents per share. ■ This' company has just secured the American rights to Sarah Bernhardt's patriotic picture, entitled "Mothers of France." Chicago News THE Alfred Hamburger houses are showing "A Tale of Two Cities," a William Fox production, and "The Little Lost Sister," Selig's film story of the play by Virginia. Brooks. At the conclusion' of the downtown run of "The Price She Paid," featuring Clara Kimball Young,' this SeTznick picture also will make the rounds of the Hamburger theaters. William J. McGrath has been added to the personnel of the local office of the Motion Picture News. Mead and Estey arestill on the job. The General Film Company held a private showing of its official British war pictures at the Selig projection room in the Garland building on Thursday, March 29. Mae Murray, captivating Lasky Paramount star, is due to hesitate in Chicago a few minutes the week of April 2. FOR SALE Mailing Lists MOVING PICTURE THEATRES Every State— Total 25,000 Price, $3.50 per M. 1400 Film Exchanges $4.00 206 Manufac turers and Studios . . . 1.50 235 Picture Machine and Supply Dealers 1.50 Particulars. A. F. WILLIAMS, 168 W. Adams St., Chicago Watterson R. iRothacker gave an illustrated lecture on the educational and advertising value of moving pictures at the Cleveland Advertising Club of Cleveland, Ohio, on March 28. With only four hours each night to his credit for sleep, Aaron Jones returned from his recent trip to New York with a bundle of work accomplished. While East he arranged for a number of productions for the Studebaker. Mildred Considine, scenario writer, who made a screen adaptation of twentytwo reels of the "Jimmy Dale, alias The Grey Seal" series of stories for the Monmouth Film Corporation, has just finished a six-reel feature for the Sunshine Film Company of Chicago and is now working on a five-reel feature, the first production of the Crystal Film Corporation, who have purchased the BarkerSwan studio at Peoria. E. H. Philippi, sales manager of the Rothacker Film Manufacturing Company, has returned from the East where he has been for several days handling some special propaganda work. "Joan the Woman," Cecil B. DeMille's production, featuring Geraldine Farrar, went into the Colonial Theater on Wednesday, March 28,for anindefinite run. Jones, Linick & Schaefer are han-dling the production. A special exhibition of pictures showing the operation. of the Rothacker Film: Manufacturing Company laboratory-stu-' dio was the feature of" the evening at an entertainment given at the University Club, Moline, Illinois, March 27. A conference of Paramount sales managers was held in the local Famous Players' office last week. About twenty men were present and plans of action were laid for the future. All of the large, cities in the middle west were represented. , Among the important officials present were: S. J. Stoughton, new middle west Paramount manager, James Steele, J. C. Graham, and W. W. Hines. At the big banquet given at the Auditorium Hotel last Tuesday night, the feature of the entertainment was the ex-. hibition of the moving pictures of the Forty Club special banquet which was held some weeks ago at the Rothacker studio. Ralph E. Duncan, of Motography's. editorial staff, has responded to the' call placing the Illinois militia on duty. Mr. Duncan spent the summer at the border as a member of the first Illinois infantry, "the best drilled company in America." C. B. Price, western division manager for McClure Pictures, made a brief and not wholly pleasant stay in Chicago upon his return from the Pacific coast. ' He was taken ill after his return, but he refused to stay on the sick list. Thereupon he packed his suitcase again, this time for a trip to New York. Prior to his departure, Joseph Partridge, eastern division manager for McClure Pictures, was in the city. N< [ 0 program on earth begins to measure up In an; detail with the Mighty UNIVERSAL PROGRAM, pronounced by thousands of shrewd Exhibitors aH over the country as the biggest and surest year round Box Office Attraction on the market — Tf you can get It now BOOK IT — If you can't get It now, watch your first opportunity. Write your nearest Universal Exchange or the UNIVERSAL FILM MANUrscil RING CO., CARL UEMMLE, President "IheLirgeet Film Manufacturing Cincsrn la tin Universe" 1H0 BROADWAY • NEW YORK