Motography (Apr-Dec 1911)

294 MOTOGRAPHY Vol. VI, No. 6. $100,000, by F. H. McManus, J. W. Coller and John D. Ormond. The head office will be in the Commerce building, Kansas City. E. H. McManus, manager of the Convention Hall moving picture theater at. Salina, is president of the company; J. W. Cotter, manager of the Western Film Exchange, Kansas City, is also a stockholder. One-half of the capital stock has been paid in and work will begin at once. A studio and factory will be constructed for the. manufacture of films. T. Saxe, who operates eight theaters in Milwaukee, will spend $20,000 in converting the building at Fifth and Edmond streets, St. Joseph, into a moving picture and vaudeville theater, which will be conducted on the same high plane as all the other houses under Mr. Saxe's management. It will have a seating capacity of almost 1,000. A new moving picture theater has been opened at Clarence under the management of Frank Thomas. MONTANA. The Scenic theater at Dillon, of which Earl Wheat is manager, has recently undergone extensive improvements. R. F. Biffle of Camp Crook, S. D., will open a moving picture theater at Wilbaux. The Bijou theater at Missoula, considered one of the best moving picture theaters in the state, has been purchased by Messrs. Hagens and Bedard, two enterprising young men of that city. A number of improvements will be made in the Gem moving picture theater at Bozeman. The Montana Amusement company, which operates fifteen theaters in Montana, announces that it will erect a moving picture theater in Butte at a cost of $96,000, which shall be the most palatial to be found in all the country. A. L. Babcock of Billings, Dick P. Sutton of Butte and Great Falls, and Charles A. Harnois of Missoula, have decided to open their houses to pictures on nights when not occupied by other attractions. After many improvements and a radical change of policy the Orion picture theater of Butte has been reopened, and will be operated for the coming season as one of a chain of theaters through Montana to be called the Orion circuit. At present there are but three cities concerned — Butte, Great Falls and Missoula — but other cities are expected to join the chain. All of the theaters will be furnished by the W. H. Swanson Film company of Denver. One of the promoters is W. J. Swartz, manager of the Empress, Butte, and others. NEBRASKA. W. J. Baum will open a moving picture theater at Beatrice about January 1. A moving picture theater has been opened at Crandall by Roy Trowbridge. " W. H. McGaffin, Jr., retiring clerk of the District Court, David City, has purchased the moving picture theater formerly operated by A. N. Beardsley. A moving picture theater will be opened at Fremont by John Farrell. The Bijou theater of Ashland has been purchased by F. B. Honey of Raymond. The Gem theater of Minden has been purchased by James Orr, of Denver, who will continue to operate the same. A deal has been consummated whereby the Crescent and Gem moving picture and vaudeville theaters at Kearney, operated by Westfall and Hendee, have been purchased by H. Edmund Dickey of North Platte, who will operate the same. The Wall theater, a moving picture house of Fremont, has installed a new Daylight curtain at a cost of $500, which has added greatly to the attractiveness of that already popular house. The Electric theater of Hastings, formerly conducted by Messrs. Gerlach and Tremayne, has been purchased by J. E. Newhoter, who will continue to conduct it on the same high plane. W. Brown will erect a moving picture theater at Fairmount. The It theater at Sherman avenue and Locust street, Omaha, has been leased by Parnell Magan and Parker Haight, who will enlarge the house and will offer a more elaborate program. NEW HAMPSHIRE. The Williamson and Patch Amusement company will erect a moving picture theater in Concord. The Clement theater of Dover, has been leased by the Blake Theatrical company, which operates a number of moving picture houses in different towns in New England. NEW JERSEY. Messrs. Walker W. Vick, John T. Collins and Thomas E. Lawrence are erecting a very attractive moving picture house at Rutherford. No expense will be spared in providing for the comfort and safety of the public and a high-grade policy will be maintained. Berherd Gluck will erect a moving picture theater at 648 Springfield avenue, Newark, at a cost of $15,000. The Noflaw Companies, Jersey City, has been incorporated with a capital stock of $1,000,000 to manufacture moving picture machines, films, slides, etc. The incorporators are Chas. F. Jones, J. Ruskin Jones, Chas. T. Ruhf, B. S. Mantz and John R. Turner, all of 15 Exchange Place, Jersey City. A moving picture theater ' has been opened at 862 E. Eighth street, Trenton, by James Gill. The management of the Beverly moving picture theater of Beverly, has been taken over by Messrs. W. L. Marter and George W. Addis. Messrs. Lowy, Beger and Finger will erect a moving picture theater at 112 Elizabeth avenue, Newark, at a cost of $5,000. A moving picture theater is being erected at Millville by Walter Martin. The Bijou moving picture theater of Red Bank has been leased by C .C. Spalsbury. NEW MEXICO. The "Crystal" is the name of a handsome, high grade vaudeville and moving picture house opened at Albuquerque. NEW YORK. A company of which the principal officers are T. G. Thompson, Jr., G. T. Taylor and Jacob Nann, will erect a moving picture theater on Plymouth Avenue North, Syracuse, to cost $100,000. The Mercury Film Company of New York has been incorporated to manufacture motion pictures, etc. ; capital stock, $10,000. The incorporators are Allan A. Deutsch, 405 Graham avenue, Brooklyn; Jacob Barkey, Morris Levey, 133 W. 90th street, New York City. The Sphinx Film Company of Yonkers has been incorporated with a capital stock of $50,000 by T. Parrick, E. Conway, Jr., and W. H. Lewis, New York. The Modern Historic Records Association has been incorporated with the following directors : Alexander Konta, Herbert L. Bridgman, George A. Plimpton, George F. Kunz, Charles R. Lamb, John G. Agar and Joseph Rowan. The association will make its headquarters at the National Arts Club in Gramercy Park until the erection of its own building. The organization is the outgrowth of a movement inaugurated by Alexander Konta for the perpetuation of living data by menas of the photograph, the phonograph and the moving picture and one of its objects is the erection of suitable fireproof buildings for the preservation of the records, and the duplication of them for educational purposes throughout the country. By means of the moving picture machine, records of current events as they actually occur will be bequeathed to posterity, which will thus receive' a vivid and many-sided record of the day. "Dreamland" is the name of a new moving picture theater to be opened at 324 Varick street, Utica. The Crystal Film Company, incorporated under the laws of the state of New York, has taken offices in the German Savings Bank Building, Fourth avenue and Fourteenth street. Ludwig G. B. Erb, well and favorably known, is president; Joseph A. Golden, vice-president. Plans have been prepared for a moving picture theater to •be eercted at 153 Monroe street, New York City, for D. Segal, at a cost of $10,000. The New York National Exclusive Film Exchange has been incorporated with a capital stock of $10,000 by Agnes V. Egan, Robert J. Clements, 145 West 45th street, and Worthy Butts, 1482 Broadway, New York City. The Bijou theater, Broadway and Twenty-ninth street. New York City, has been taken over by F. C. Taylor, who will conduct it as a moving picture and vaudeville house. A petition in bankruptcy has been filed against the United Film Company, dealer in motion picture machines, 145 West 45th street, New York City. Plans have been filed for the theater which is to take the place of the new theater, now known as the Century theater, 238 West Forty-fourth street, New York City. It will have a seating capacity of 299, will be fireproof and will be known as the "Little Theater." The estimated cost is $100,000. The building at 2328 Broadway, New York City, will be converted into a moving picture theater. E. A. Switzer has purchased an interest in the Getty Square moving picture theater of Yonkers.