Motography (Apr-Dec 1911)

100 MOTOGRAPHY Vol. VI, No. 2. delphia, for the Erie Amusement Company at a cost of $15,000. The McKee Theater, 2334 Arlington avenue, Pittsburg, has been thoroughly remodeled and its seating capacity increased to 380. Oliver McKee is proprietor. A moving picture and vaudeville theater will be erected at 527 Prospect street, Scranton, by S. A. Smith, which will have a seating capacity of 500 and all the up-to-date improvements and conveniences. TENNESSEE. The Gay Theater, 403 Gay street, Knoxville, was recently opened to the public. The house has a capacity of 600 and is complete in every detail. It is supplied with an up-to-date ventilating system and an automatic sprinkling system which renders it comfortable and absolutely fireproof. There are two large exhaust fans in the top, making a direct current of air constantly in the building. The operating room is lined with asbestos and iron plates. A moving picture theater to cost $40,000 will be erected at Church street and Fifth avenue, Nashville, by W. P. Ready, one of the best-known of the popular price theater managers of Nashville. The theater will be one of the largest, handsomest and most elaborate in the entire South, the plans being for a seating capacity of 1,200. Many features conducive to comfort and convenience of patrons, and which are entirely new or unknown in the South, will be installed. The ground floor and one balcony will be fitted with roomy, cushioned opera chairs. The management will cater to the highest class of patrons. All exhibitions will be such as to cultivate artistic taste, and educational subjects along scientific and historical lines will be rendered in interesting and popular manner. Mr. Ready will be in charge of the construction. W. S. Neil, owner of the Crescent Theater at Chattanooga, has formed a stock company and leased a building which will be converted into one of the finest and handsomest moving picture houses in the south. He will move the Crescent into this building about October 1st. Mr. Neil also owns picture houses at Jackson, Miss. ; Statesville, N. C. ; Etawah, Tenn. ; Athens, Tenn., and Lafayette, Ga. TEXAS. The moving picture theater at Victoria, operated by C. A. Bilger, has been purchased by Peter Jecker. Oscar Alstott and Virgil Bridges will open a moving picture theater at Rockdale. O. H. Brown of Navasota has purchased the Dixie moving picture theater at Hempstead, the only one of its kind in the place. The Dixie is the name of a new moving picture theater Opened at Palestine under the management of Ernest A. Opitz. VIRGINIA. The American Film Machine Corporation has been incorporated at Richmond with a capital stock of $100,000 and the directors are as follows : H. W. Fuller, L. J. Simmons and L. E. Sinclair. WASHINGTON. The Spokane Theater, Spokane, will open as a moving picture and vaudeville house September 3. About $5,000 has been spent in remodeling and redecorating the theater. Three machines will be installed instead of one. Sam B. Cohn is the manager. Joe H. Bunnell is now sole proprietor of the Olympic Theater, Toppenish, having purchased the interest of John J. Post. WEST VIRGINIA. The McCray Theater Company of Fairmont has been incorported with a capital stock of $25,000 by Chas. E. McCray, F. C. McCray and J. Fletcher. The Fairmount Amusement Company of Huntington has been incorporated with a capital stock of $10,000 by J. P. Necessary, S. A. Moore, E. M. Moore and C. F. Peter. WISCONSIN. Architect Edward Kozick has let a contract for the erection of the Iris Theater to be erected on Fond du Lac avenue, between Pine and Tamarack streets. The Davison Theater and Odeon at Beaver Dam have changed management and will now be under the management of Henry Tripp, manager and owner of the Columbia and Empire theaters of Milwaukee. Frank Geele, Sheboygen, will erect a moving picture theater at the corner of North Eighth street and Ontario avenue, which will be occupied by Messrs. Jones and O'Brien, owners of the Unique Theater. The site is valued at $10,000 and the building will cost $25,000. A permit has been granted Herman Fischer and August W. Stein to erect a moving picture theater at Muskegon avenue and Burham street, Milwaukee, which will cost $8,000. The first moving picture theater in West Allis is being erected at Sixty-Fourth and Greenfield avenue by the Douglas Land Investment Company and will cost $7,500. The Empire Theater of Watertown, owned by H. Davis, has been purchased by A. B. Avendson of Chicago. The Butterfly is. the name of a new moving picture theater which will be opened at 210 Grand avenue, Milwaukee, about September 1. The Racine Orpheum Company, Racine, has been incorporated with, a capital stock of $10,000. The company will rebuild the Orpheum theater on College avenue and make it modern. The seating capacity will be doubled. The incorporators are A. G. Langlois, A. A. Anderson and B. B. Baldwin. Plans have been prepared for an electric theater to be erected at Sixth street and Green Bay avenue, Milwaukee, by H. C. Hensel. The Alhambra Theater of Milwaukee has been acquired by the Saxe. Amusement Company, who will conduct it as a moving picture theater for the present, but later will convert it into a vaudeville house. This company now controls the Crystal, Orpheum, Princess, Modjeska and Theatorium theaters, devoted to vaudeville or moving pictures, and in addition have extensive interests in Minneapolis. Frank Bruemmer has given a contract for the erection of a moving picture theater at Eleventh avenue and Washington streets, Milwaukee, for the Bruemmer estate, at a cost of $10,000, which will have a seating capacity of 650. The Borum & Goldstein Amusement Company, 552 East Water street, Milwaukee, recently incorporated, have purchased a lot at North avenue and Fourteenth street, on which they will erect the largest and most beautiful moving picture and vaudeville theater in the city. The theater will extend fifty feet on North avenue and one hundred and fifty-one feet on Fourteenth street. It will have eight exits and a seating capacity of 1,200, 400 being in boxes and loges. The price of admission will be five and ten cents. Louis B. Goldstein, who has been a successful theater manager for the past three years, will manage the enterprise and his policy will be "Nothing. but the best." The house will open about October 1. William Schoenleber will erect a moving picture theater at West Twenty-Fourth and Vliet streets, Milwaukee, which will cost $9,000. Sherwood & McWilliams of La Crosse will erect a new moving picture theater at Fair Oaks, a resident district of Madison, which will have a seating -capacity of 300. The company has also just purchased a large block of stock in the Grand Theater Company of Madison and have taken a long lease of the house which has a seating capacity of 800. When the new house is completed the company will then have three houses in Madison, the year around, and four in summer, as fhey have the Fuller Opera House in summer for pictures. A moving picture theater will be erected at Green Bay avenue and Fifth street, Milwaukee, by C. Buell, which will cost $8,000. Emil Ludwig will erect a moving picture theater at Chambers and Third street, Milwaukee, at a cost of $9,000. Brussaco & Brothers will erect a moving picture theater at Twelfth and Walnut streets, Milwaukee. A new moving picture theater, the Rex, has been opened at 171 Main street, Oshkosh, under the management of Arthur H. Gray, one of the proprietors of the Lyric Theater. The Pastime, a new moving picture theater, has been opened at 1012 Michigan avenue, Sheboygan. ; The Unique is a new moving picture theater which will be ready to open to the public of Eau Clair about the middle of x\ugust. The People's Theater was recently opened at Whitewater by M. I. Sapiro and E. H. Ericsson. The Gem theater at Chippewa Falls has been purchased by Eli Nelson of Fremont, Neb., who. will operate the same. Plans have been submitted to the building inspection department for a vaudeville and moving picture theater at Twentieth street and Fond du Lac avenue, Milwaukee, at an estimated cost of $25,000. A. R. Freuler and associates are behind the enterprise. WYOMING. The Orpheum is a late addition to Newcastle's moving picture theaters.