Motography (Jan-Jun 1918)

June 29, 1918 MOTOGRAPHY 1229 A theatre will be erected at Leadville, Colorado, by the International Amusement Company, which will cost $25,000. 4? 4* 4? The Broadway Tehatre of High Point, North Carolina, has been destroyed by fire. The loss is estimated at $5,000. 4 4 4. Rawl Brothers, proprietors of the Pastime Theatre, Columbia, South Carolina, have leased the Columbia Opera House. 4 4 4. W. H. Howard of Roseclair, Illinois, has purchased the Jefferson Theatre at DeSoto, Missouri, from Earl Mitchell. 444 A charter has been filed at Baton Rouge, Lousiana, by Victor J. Kurzweg for the Liberty Theatre at Plaquemine. 444 Benz and Gumm of Grand Rapids, Minnesota, have leased the Lyceum Theatre at Deer River. 444. C. H. Eastwood has taken over the Star Theatre at Kimberley, Idaho. 444 A. D. McGuire has leased the Isis Theatre at Twin Falls, Idaho. Washington George P. Endert took over the management of the Seattle Universal office last week, following the resignation of John R. Meldrum. Mr. Endert has been sales manager of the Artcraft-Paramount Seattle office for the past eight months, and served as manager of various Seattle exchanges previous to that. G. A. Metzger, manager of the Film Supply Company, which handles Universal releases in the Northwest, is spending several weeks in Seattle to get things started right under the new manager. He is also inaugurating a special sales campaign. 444 Ed. James, who has taken the old Pantages Theatre in Tacoma, will not close the house for alterations, as was anticipated, but will open it as soon as the Pantages show is moved to the new building, as a motion picture theatre under the name of the Oak. He has booked "The Crisis." "The Warrior," and "The Mask of Life" for some of his opening shows. 444 Two additions to Seattle film row's representations in the military service were made last week when L. J. Schlaifer of the company handling the attractions bearing his name joined the marines and left for a training station, and when Laurence Hultren, cashier in the Artcraft-Paramount office, left for the officers' training school at Camp Lewis. 444 Mike Rosenberg, manager of the De Luxe Feature Film Company of Seattle, has bought Mr. Huhn's interest in the Yesler Theatre. M. L. Brown, who with Mr. Huhn had bought the theatre and was redecorating and enlarging it, will remain as manager. 444 F. E. Walton, who bought the American Theatre at Bellingham and closed it for four weeks for alterations, opened it again last week. Mr. Walton purchased the Bellingham house after he had sold his Rose Theatre in Colfax to the Stillwell Amusement Company of Spokane: 4. 4 4 Eugene Levy continues to improve the line-up of shows and the method of presenting them at his Orpheum Theatre in Seattle. He engaged last week the services of Frank Adelman to lead his fifteen-piece orchestra. Mr. Adelman is well known in Seattle musical circles. 444 Fred C. Quimby, business manager of Pathe, arrived in Seattle last week from Xew York. Mr. Quimby is perhaps better known in the Seattle territory than in any other, having been Pathe manager in Seattle for two years previous to going to Xew York. 444 F. R. Durand, for the past few months manager of the Greater Features Company of Seattle, left for San Francisco last week to take over the management of the General exchange in that city. 444 C. P. Scates opened the new Paramount Theatre at Okanogan last week. He has booked some of the biggest features produced. The seating capacity is 600. 444 E. McWilliams will erect a theatre on the State Fair Grounds at Yakima this summer. The building is to cost about $9,000. 4 4 4* The Sunnyside Land and Investment Company is preparing to build a new motion picture theatre at Sunnvside. Virgil Adams, formerly booker at the Seattle Mutual office, is now managing the Grand Theatre at Sunnyside. , . , •4* *i? *r Sam Mendelsohn is remodeling and equipping the Rose Theatre at Anacortes. It will be opened in two weeks. 444 W. Oliver and A. C. Allen have just opened a theatre in Fairfax. 444 A $50,CO0 theatre is being planned by Christie Brothers of Tacoma. 444 A $165,000 theatre building will probably be erected at Lincoln and Sprague streets, Spokane. 444 Jack Kaufman has purchased the Empire Theatre at Anacortes. 444 The theatre at Garfield has been bought by John McGowan and H. I. Woods. 444 The motion picture theatre in Colton, managed by John Grief, has been closed. 444 The Skagit Theatre at Clear Lake, W. C. Yokum, manager, burned down last week. A private screening of "My Four Years in Germany" has been arranged in the Exchange Hall of the Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce. Public officials, members of the Business Men's Club, the Woman's Club and the Board of Education have been invited. 444 A Cincinnati unit of the Affiliated Distributors Corporation has been organized. Exhibitors representing 1,400 booking days have joined the movement and it is expected that by July 1 this number will be increased to 2.O0O. 444 Urbana plans to have an open air theatre until arrangements can be made for erecting a new one, the Clifford Theatre having burned to the ground. 444 The C. & M. Amusement Company of Marietta will erect a new Hippodrome theatre. Herbert Kneller is the new manager of the Lyric Theatre at Lancaster, taking the place of Russell Keller, who was called to the colors. 444. The Fairfield Theatre Company has been incorporated at Cleveland with a capital of $20,000 by I. Grohs. 4 4 4 A new Palace Theatre will be erected at Cincinnati, which will cost approximately $100,000. Miss Elizabeth Johnson, owner of the Liberty Theatre of Houston, is in Seattle, attending a family reunion and to bid two of her brothers good-bye who are in the Canadian service. Miss Johnson recently sold the Key Theatre in Houston, but expects on her return to close a deal for another house in the down-town section. 444 In compliance with the request of two secret service men, "War Brides" was taken 'off at the Zoe Theatre in Houston after a two days' run. The Zoe is one of the string owned by E. H. Hulsey. 444 The Trinity Amusement Company of Dallas has been incorporated with a capital of $25,000 by C. E. Tandy, R B. Strayhorn and M. Bailey, Jr. 444 A new theatre will be erected at Beaumont by C. A. Logan which will cost $40,000. The Crown Theatre of Houston, which has changed ownership, is being remodeled. Wilbur D. Ingledue of Marshalltown has sold his interest in the Casino Theatre to H. O. Hostetler of Waterloo. 444 The Majestic Theatre Company of Des Moines has been incorporated with a capital of $50,000 by A. Frankel and I. D. Thomas. 4 4 4 The Princess Theatre of Cedar Rapids, owned by the Seayer Amusement Company, was destroyed by fire, with a loss of $9,000. Ill inois The Conquering Germanic Barbarism Photoplay Corporation of Chicago has been incorporated with a capital of $30,000 by F. L. Wilke, Jr., Jacob Schwartz and W. A. Lenarz. 444. Ralph Warren of Camp Point has sold his moving picture theatre to Charles Huber. 444. D. W. Jackson is now owner of the Idle Hour Theatre at Bardolph, having purchased it from Homer Brown. Pennsylvania The Columbia Theatre at Erie, which was recently damaged by fire, will be rebuilt. 4* 4" 4? A new theatre will be built at Philadelphia bv H. B. Weldon. 444 The new Liberty Theatre at Wilkes-Barre, owned by Andrew Romowich, has been opened. 444 Ellen Reed has sold her theatre in Philadelphia to Milton Rogasner. Ind lana Back to the land. William Farnum, Fox star, registering agricultural inclination. The Kokomo Grand Theatre Company has been incorporated with a capital of $10,000 by Ivan W. Arnold, N. M. Arnold and Fannie M. Owens. 444 Samuel L. Kuntz of Fort Wayne has purchased the Grand Opera House building at Bluffton from Charles Westrick, for $35,000. 444 B. Deardorff of Goshen has purchased the Princess Theatre at Kendallville.