Motography (Apr-Dec 1911)

98 MOTOGRAPHY Vol. VI, No. 2. Fred Dale ; vice-president, Henry Reiss ; secretary and treasurer, Herman Gocke. The Maysville Amusement Company has been incorporated at Louisville with a capital stock of $4,000. LOUISIANA. The Palace Theater of Shreveport has been purchased by F. S. Trimble and J. H. Roland, who have improved and remodeled, the same and will conduct it as an exclusive picture house. The Lyceum Theater of Monroe has been sold by Josiah Pierce & Sons of New Orleans to Mrs. M. W. Hoyt of Chicago for a consideration of $30,000. W. L. Jennings, who has been manager of the house for some time, purchased a half interest in the business from Mrs. Hoyt and will continue in charge as manager. The Imperial Theater of Lake Charles has been purchased by Josiah Pierce & Sons of New Orleans. After being thoroughly renovated the house will be opened under the management of Ned E. Depinet and will be conducted as an exclusive picture house for the present. Later illustrated songs will be added. Messrs. Lohman and Mollen, who operate moving picture theaters at Hammond, La., McComb and Hattiesburg, Miss., have leased the Daniel building at Brookhaven and will open a house there. MAINE. The Empire is the name of a new moving picture theater being erected at Rockland, which will be under the management of Fred M. Engley. It will have a seating capacity of 600. MARYLAND. The Picture Garden, a handsome and rather unique moving picture theater, was recently opened on Lexington street, between Charles and Libby, Baltimore. It is provided with a waiting room and no one is permitted to enter the theater proper until there are available seats. The color scheme is green and gold. Along the walls are twelve handsome panels representing flower scenes. These were executed in Bordeaux, France. The dome is covered with lattice work through which are twined vines of green which twist in all directions. Up above the lattice work is the blue dome. By an ingenious electrical device this dome can be lighted so as to represent the break of day, with its delicate shadings of gray, and can be changed to that of night with the deep blue of early evening showing the rising stars. The floor is covered with red velvet carpet. The house is well supplied with electric fans. The seating capacity is 400. H. J. Fitzgerald is owner, and Edwin R. Price, manager. The Star Theater has been opened at Cumberland by Klobe Brothers. MICHIGAN. The Empire moving picture theater of Detroit has been purchased by A. J. Gilligham of that city, who has converted the same into a very attractive house. The firm of Gilligham & Smith are erecting the Orpheum, a vaudeville house at Grand Rapids, which will be ready to open about September. This firm owns the Monroe and Original Vaudettes, the Idlehour, the Ideal and the New Orpheum at Grand Rapids and the Park Theater in Detroit. The new Orpheum will be a ten-cent house. Mr. Gilligham believes the people are growing tired of vaudeville offered in five-cent houses and are going back to pictures. D. E. Rice, who owns a moving picture theater in Houghton, will erect another house in E'scanaba. N. R. Austin has opened a moving picture and vaudeville theater at Onaway. Carl Ray, who already operates three moving picture theaters in Muskegon, will open a fourth at 79 Western avenue. It will be completely finished in mission style. Burlap seven feet high will adorn the lower part of the theater walls and above there will be paneling and beautiful decorations to harmonize with the general furnishings. MINNESOTA. One of the prettiest moving picture theaters in the Northwest was opened at 413 Hennepin avenue, Minneapolis, July 1st. It is known as the Seville, named after a moving picture house at Seville, Spain. The lobby is finished in Moorish style. The doors are of mahogany studded with art glass and between them are beautiful marble pilasters, Italian, with verdi antique marble as a base. This is brilliantly lighted with 500 electric lamps. The walls are decorated in Moorish colors and half way down from the ceiling on both sides are 100 small green lights. The pictures are shown in a well-lighted room, and are projected from the rear through a specially prepared plate glass. The cost was $20,000. E. O. Freedman is manager. The American Amusement Company, 14-16 East Lake street, Minneapolis, will erect a one-story brick and concrete theater at a cost of $20,000. The opera house at New Ulm has been leased by Dick Higgs, who will open a moving picture theater therein after thoroughly renovating the same and putting it in first-class order. MISSOURI. A new theater will be erected at 544 Minnesota avenue, Kansas City, By Geo. Gruebel. J. W. Conn of New London, Mo., has sold his Nickelodeon Theater to Warren and George Rutter. The Gem Theater at Vandalia has been re-opened after being thoroughly remodeled and made thoroughly up-to-date. Messrs. Harris and Reynolds are the properietors. John P. Regan will erect a moving picture theater at the northwest corner of Nebraska and Park avenues, St. Louis, that will be one of the most imposing in that section of the city. It has already been leased for three years on a 4 per cent basis of $12,500. The E. H. Pipe Realty Company, which is erecting a moving picture theater on Olive street, between Vandeventer avenue and Sarah street, has leased the same to the Olive Theater Company for twenty-five years at $2,000 a year. Albert Kuchs has resumed the management of the Empire Theater of Maryville, which for the past year had been leased by William Burtz. J. H. Peschmann will erect a moving picture theater at 3439 Brooklyn avenue, Kansas City, at a cost of $2,000. The Cherokee Theater Company of St. Louis has been incorporated with a capital stock of $33,000 by J. M. Dubbs, E. W. Austin and W. C. Cross. Articles of incorporation have been filed for the Ideal Theater Company with a capital stock of $6,000. The directors are B. F. Wurzel, E. M. Chapman and John A. Morris. MONTANA. The Isis is the name of a handsome new moving picture theater recently opened at Billings under the management of W. L. Linton. Articles of incorporation have been filed for the Princess Theater Company of Helena. The incorporators are R. E. Flynn, W. R. Strong and A. L. Beaupre. The company has taken over the Lyric Theater and will conduct the same and will also conduct a film exchange. The capital stock is $3,500. Louis Livingston of Lewistown has disposed of his half of the Princess Theater, a moving picture and vaudeville house of that city, to Charles Mleyersick. The Princess was established by Mr. Livingston and Joseph Gardner about three months ago and has been a very popular amusement place. The Scenic Theater of Dillon has been purchased ■ by a Butte syndicate and will be operated under the management of J. J. Brennar, who states that the films shown will be both of an amusing and educational character. NEBRASKA. Wm. Swan, owner of the Star Theater at Broken Bow, has opened a moving picture theater at Glenwood, Iowa. Mr. Swan expects to secure two more picture theaters along this line of the Burlington and will then devote his entire time to the five. He opened one in Alliance a short time ago. Messrs. G. F. Truman and Donald Despain will spend between $8,000 and $10,000 in remodeling and enlarging their moving picture theater at 1337 O street, Lincoln. NEW JERSEY. Articles of incorporation have been filed for the Principia Amusement Company with offices at 1 Montgomery street, Jersey City. The capital stock is $10,000 and the incorporators are Howard K. Wood, Tom S. Kingman and George W. Flaacke. The Plaza Theater Company of Spring Lake has been incorporated with a capital stock of $50,000 to operate theaters. The incorporators are M. J. 0'M«ara, Dencla building, Philadelphia, and others. A moving picture theater has been opened at 533 East Jersey street, Elizabeth. NEW YORK. Frederick P. Foster will erect a moving picture theater at One Hundred and Sixteenth street and Eighth avenue, New York City. The Pierce & Nagal Amusement Company of Rochester have let a contract for the construction of a moving picture