Motography (1912)

74 MOTOGRAPHY Vol. VIII, No. 2. MISSISSIPPI. A new motion picture theater designated as "The Little House With the Big Show," was recently opened at Vicksburg under the management of Bernie Mulligan, who has had considerable experience in the motion picture business in that city and will doubtless make a success of the new house. MISSOURI. A motion picture theater will be opened in the Carter Opera House, Burlington Junction, by Floyd Miller of Fairfax. A Morton will open a motion picture theater at Clarksdale. A motion picture theater will be opened at Liberty by J. B. Paradice. The new structure to be erected on Ninth street, between Chestnut and Market streets, St. Louis, by the Delor Realty Company, has been leased by the Swanson-Crawford Film Company at a rental of $1,700 a year. The Lyric motion picture theater at Hamilton has been purchased by R. W. Gott of Jamesport who will conduct the same after making various improvements. The Kansas City schools are making arrangements to use motion pictures as an aid to the instruction of children in the public schools in the subjects of geography, physics, physiology, history, natural history and botany. The Princess motion picture theater at Pierce City has been purchased by Joseph Schiska. MONTANA. Beebe Brothers will open a motion picture theater at Missoula. E. B. Knott is now sole owner of the Princess motion picture theater at Kalispell, having purchased the interest of his partner, Charles Swaney. The old Alhambra motion picture theater at Conrad has been thoroughly remodeled inside and out and will hereafter be known as the "Gem." NEBRASKA. The name of the Majestic motion picture theater at Alliance has been changed to the Empress. The Starland Palace is the name of a new motion picture theater to be erected at Douglas and 16th streets, Omaha. The Bijou moving picture theater at Fremont has been taken over by the Theater Exchange Company. D. C. Phillips will open a motion picture theater at Sixth and Main streets, Beatrice. The Elite motion picture theater at David City has been taken over by H. L. Sacrider, who will conduct it in a first class manner. A new theater is being erected at Chadron by B. F. Pitman, which will be occupied by the Fairyland motion picture theater conducted by F. W. Grantham. It will be modern and thoroughly up-to-date in every respect. The Edison theater at Hastings has been taken over by F. D. Green who will greatly improve the same. The Lily motion picture theater has been opened at 1428 O street, Lincoln, under the management of William Armstrong. Messrs. Eustice and Bonseld will erect a motion picture theater at Auburn. NEW HAMPSHIRE. A first-class motion picture theater will be erected at Rochester b)r L. McDuffee. NEW JERSEY. H. Hope has been granted permission to erect a motion picture theater at 990 South Orange avenue, Newark. Hoboken has had another addition to its list of motion picture houses, one having been erected at Fourteenth street and Park avenue by Andrew Serventi, Excise Commissioner, and Ralph Marrone. The house has a seating capacity of six hundred and is thoroughly up-to-date. A new motion picture theater will be opened at Hamilton avenue and Franklin streets, Trenton, by William J. Course. A motion picture house will be opened at 517 Central avenue, Newark. The American Theater Company, Newark, has been incorporated with a capital stock of $100,000,_ to conduct amusement places. The incorporators are Theodore J. Gerth, Edmund Schussel and George O. C. Velsor. A motion picture theater will be erected at 400 Springfield avenue, Newark, by the Metropolitan Realty Company at a cost of $18,500. The Garfield Theater has been opened at 160 Palisade avenue, Passaic. The Broad Street Theater, Trenton, N. J., has been taken over by Messrs. Haverson and Ginisky, who will operate it. This capacity has a seating capacity of 2,000. Plans have been prepared for a motion picture theater to be erected at 400 Springfield avenue, Newark, by the Metropolitan Realty Company at a cost of $18,500. A motion picture theater will be opened at Farmington by Frank Allen. The Orpheum theater at Albuquerque has been leased by Messrs. Charles J. Helling and I. L. Warden, of El Paso, who will conduct it as a high grade vaudeville and De Luxe motion picture house. NEW YORK. The James O'Neill Monte Cristo Film Company is an organization incorporated to deal in moving picture films, lease and operate theaters and other places of amusement; capital stock, $10,000. The directors are : James O'Neill, Daniel Frohman, 140 W. Forty-fifth street; Harry Harris, 31 Nassau street, New York City. The Circle Theater Company of Buffalo has been incorporated to do a general theatrical and amusement business; capital stock, $20,000. The directors are: J. Adam Weiss, Michael A. Crage and James Maisel, Buffalo. The Animated Publicity and Distributing Company, New York, has been incorporated. The purpose of the organization is to be the making of motion pictures for advertising purposes and the distribution of the same. The company has taken offices at 229 W. Forty-second street and will have a studio at Santa Monica Canyon, California. The directors of the company are : F. Cornelius Leibow, 453 Jefferson street, Brooklyn ; Lester B. Freeman, Joseph Bronstein, 320 Broadway, New York City. Articles of incorporation have been filed for the Picture Theater Company which will deal in moving picture films and machines and operate moving picture theaters; capital stock, $10,000. The directors are: Stanhope Foster, Madeline Tweedy, 34 Nassau street; Alfred Tweedy, 27 Cedar street, New York City. The Napoleon Amusement and Novelty Company has been incorporated to conduct theaters of all kinds, including moving picture houses and vaudeville, and parks; capital stock, $10,000. The directors are : Samuel Mosevice, Henry Street, Coney Island ; Harry Lewis, 140 E. Twenty-eighth street ; Edwin T. Taliaferro, 125 W. Ninety-sixth street, New York City. Messrs. McGreal and Fagan will open a motion picture theater at Goodman street and Hayward avenue, Rochester. Troy will have another motion picture house which will be conducted by George Landry, who will convert the Grand Army Hall Building into a motion picture theater. Permission has been granted Edwin O. Desrochers to erect a motion picture thater at 3025 Sixth avenue, Troy. The "Empire," a motion picture theater, has been added to the amusement places in Elizabethtown. John J. Walsh has been granted permission to erect a motion picture theater at 561 Nepperhan avenue, Yonkers. A new motion picture theater is in process of erection at 509 South Geddes street, Syracuse, by James Kearney. Plans have been accepted for a new motion picture house to be erected at Grand and Roebling streets, Brooklyn, by Annie Price. A second house will be erected at Sixth avenue and Fifty-seventh street by Patrick J. Carley of 275 Seventyfourth street. The estimated cost of the first will be $12,000 and the second about $8,000. The Progress Moving Picture Company, Brooklyn, has been incorporated with a capital stock of $3,200 and will operate theaters and engage in the manufacture of picture films and machines. The directors are Louis Salkin, 116 Graham avenue, Brooklyn; Sarah Disler, 1443 Madison avenue; Barnet Barwick, 345 West 37th street, New York City. Plans have been filed for a new motion picture theater to be erected at Rockaway and Blake avenues, Brooklyn, by Samuel Meyer, 466 Rockaway avenue, Brooklyn. The Hippodrome Amusement Company of Utica has leased the Duchess Theater at Poughkeepsie for a number of years and will conduct that house in connection with the Hippodrome Theater of Utica. The house has just been completed and has a seating capacity of 1,000. P. F. Clancy and Peter Tennis, both of whom have been connected with the Hippodrome Company at Utica, will be in charge of the new house at Poughkeepsie. Joseph Quinn will succeed Mr. Clancy as manager of the Utica house. A motion picture theater will be erected at Niagara Falls by the Lodge of Elks, which will be conducted under the management of A. C. Hayman. The Independent Film Service Company, Manhattan, has been incorporated to manufacture picture films ; capital stock, $10,000. The incorporators are: Alfred T. Tompkins, 153 West 51st street; Howard E. Brown, Summit avenue and 161st street, Bronx; Grace M. Hill, 1602 Atlantic avenue, Brooklyn.