Motography (Jan-Jun 1918)

April 20, 1918. MOTOGRAPHY 775 Brief Theater News of the Entire Country A SUMMARY OF HAPPENINGS BY STATES Alabama CN. THOMPSON is the owner of a • new house which is being constructed at Piedmont. It will have a seating capacity of 100 and the cost will be approximately $2,000. California A new Hippodrome Theatre will be erected on First street, San Jose, by a syndicate headed by T. S. Montgomery of San Francisco. The theatre will have a seating capacity of 1.800 and will cost $175,000. Samuel H. Levin will erect a new theatre at Clement street and Ninth avenue. Richmond. The theatre will cost $100,000 and seat nearly 2,200 persons. Canada The Royal Alexandria Theatre, Lachine, Quebec, has been destroyed by fire. The theatre and equipment were covered by insurance, but it is said that a number of improvements were not. It will be rebuilt at once. Illinois The Famous Stars Theatrical Corporation of Chicago has been incorporated by Louis Grollman, Albert F. Kunze and George S. Pines, with a capital stock of $1,000. Ralph M. Gately and Theresa Gately Bulger have leased the seventh floor of the Gately building, 57-59 East Adams street, Chicago, to the Moving Picture Machine Operators for a rental of $5,400. A new theatre is being erected at Forty-seventh street and Marshfield avenue, Chicago, by the Peoples Theatre Company. It will cost $300,000 and seat about 3,750. The Woodlawn Theatre Company of Chicago has increased its capital from $100,000 to $150,000. E. A. Thorpe has bought the Princess Theatre of Monticello from C. W. Joehrendt. The Parkview Theatre Company of Chicago has been incorporated with a capital of $1,000 by Michael B. Roderick. Joseph A. Rogers and William Hershberg. The three theatres of Eldorado are open again after being closed for ten weeks on account of a smallpox scare. J. A. Carrier, owner of the Avon Theatre at Decatur, is now wearing khaki at Camp Grant, Rockford. Indiana A new studio will be erected at Indianapolis by the Capital Film Companj' as soon as a site can be decided upon. The cost will aggregate about $150,000. Architects have been sent to Denver to see the most improved studio erected in recent years, so that this one will be modern in every detail Pete Sarantos, manager of the Family Theatre at Elkhart, has been called to the colors. The Isis Theatre at Kokomo is planning to put in a large pipe organ. Kentucky The new Kozy Theatre at Paducah has been incorporated with a capital of $6,000 by Rodney C. Davis, R. R. Kirkland and L. F. Keller. They will do business a; the Kozy Theatre Company. Aubrey S.auffer is the new manager of the Liberty Theatre on the Poplar Level Road. Louisville. He succeeds Charles Scott, who has been transferred to open a new theatre at another camp by the War Department. A wall adjoining the Pastime Theatre of Winchester fell recently and completely wrecked the theatre. Louisiana The War Department will erect a Liberty Theatre at Camp Beauregard, Alexandria. Minnesota Joseph Mars of Wabasha has sold the Princess Theatre to Irving Burkhardt. Charles G. Osterlund will erect a new theatre at Deerwood, which will have a seating capacity of 250. The Sheldon Memorial Theatre was destroved by fire recently, with a loss of >50;000. Missouri The new Trio Theatre at Hale will be open to the public in about a week. The Empire Theatre of Shelbina has been leased by Sears & Jones of Brookfield. Howard Saunders will be the manager. New Jersey The Goodwyn Theatre, Inc.. of Newark, has been incorporated by Meyer Semel, Charles J. Simons and Isadore A. Steam, all of Newark, with a capital of $3,000. New York The management of the Majestic Theatre of Utica will construct a new m .«*• iffy i \ w A Im Ai^^i. U .'..>. ||| ^^^^^^H p^^^^ i^% ^•Si When Major Ian Hay Beith, author of "The First Hundred Thousand," visited Los Angeles, Jesse L. Lasky, vice president in charge of productions of the Famous PlayersLasky Corporation, took him on a tour of the various studios. Here they are with Charley Chaplin. m