Moving Picture World (Jun 1916)

June 24, 1916 THE MOVING PICTURE WORLD BOOD at thi' local theaters under the direction of tin women. The pictures exhibited are supervised in every sense of the word. Among the Kansas City Exchanges. The Kansas City Feature Film Company in excellent business. New contracts are coming in in great shape and it looks like a banner year for Flintom's firm. Three pictures which are taking in mally good shape are: "The Eternal City," "The Hypocrite" and "The A recent caller at the local office of the General Film was E. A. Schuster, auditor of that company. Mr. Sehtfster was here for several days. "As good a. *old. ' "As white as • now.' "As fi le as silk." Why do other papers i 1 this held invariably try to compare with the standard of the MOVING PICTURE WORLD? There * * reMOn Enjoin Sabbath Closing Wichita, Kan., Exhibitors Apply to District Court to Keep City Commissioners and Police from Enforcing Local Ordinance That Forbids Sunday Pictures — Interesting Line-Up of Forces. Special to Moving Picture World from Kansas City Xews Service. C. A. Jones, traveler with the Universal recently left Kansas City on a trip of unusual duration. On this journey Mr. Jones will visit the eastern ilne of Colorado. The employees of the local Pathe office recently held a banquet at the Baltimore hotel, the occasion being as a result of the revenue derived from the profit-sharing plan of the Pathe. The following were present: C. S. Edwards, Jr.,William Beckenstein, Hattie Bolton, Ruth Richards, E. E. Heller, K. A. Agnew, Darline O'Dell, Mary Bowman and Emma Guenther. Pathe's New Publicity Department. Lfi City, Mo. — C. E. Edwards, Jr., local Pathe manager, has installed a publicity department, placing Howard Jamison, who formerly traveled in southern Kansas i hern Oklahoma at the head. The chief function of this department for the present at least, will be to boost serials. It will not be so much a publicity department as it will be a co-operative dei The idea is to work with the various newspapers and exhibitors throughout the district with the view of not only exhibitor's shows but pictures. Theater Changes Hereabouts. Hoxie, Kans.— T. P. Meneffe is building a new moving picture house here. ScottBVille, Kans. — Louis Christie is considering the erection of a new moving pictei bei •■■ Seneca, Kans. — Albert Koelzer, manager of the theater here, has sold his house to Mr. Turley, Who takes im Belleville, Kans. — July 1, is the date set for the opening of a new theater here, at but one house in the city. Kansas City, Mc Kansas, is building a very fh.m1.-iii theater at Buckmen, Kansas, it will be n by his brother, who Is an experienced mot Ion picture man. Well. I! of Wellington, has leased one of his thea\lr. I i 1 1 r i . I ."• 1 1 . who Inline! I;. managed the Imperial theater of tfc I Mi. i Irayman decided to bi oaden hi Held a little, and be did not want t bUl dened with two Mr. drayman Is known as a sui ii,. ,t. i in J. E. Folan, traveler for the Pathe, was recently n, the office ol the MOVING PI< ii re WORLD representative, and Ins. material r< to* m .1, Kansas. lie tOld of one ho. se at Norway I thai sated • 10 i" !•• « nils the population 01 the town was just thai numl.ei Mr. i'. dan sayi the house Is packed ->t I . . n another promlnenl exhibitor is N. N. Morris Of Ma. , rat.. \ltli..iigh th« 'own has a populatl theale, state I In WICHITA, KANS.— Eight moving picture exhibitors of this city have applied to the District Court for an injunction to keep the city commissioners and police from enforcing the local ordinance against Sundav theaters. Those who brought the suit are as follows: L. G. Hicks, Don Powell, J. M. Benson, A. R. Ford, Joe C. Fox, C. C. McCollister, E. L. Martling and the Southwestern Amusement Company. The case was brought before presiding Judge Thomas C. Wilson on June 3 and was postponed until June 17, on account of the absence from the city of City Attorney James Conly. The petition alleges that the ordinance is void because there is nothing legal to uphold its adoption; that the Kansas constitution is being violated; and the rights of citizens of this country as presented in the constitution are being infringed on by forcing the houses to close on Sunday. These however, will probably not be the main points which the exhibitors will adopt. The basis of the fight will be on the argument that the people of the city are in favor of keeping the moving picture houses open. This, it seems, will be a much stronger argument than any of the others, as they would require much legal squabbling. E. C. Mills Will Lead Picture Men. The exhibitors of the city have enlisted the aid of B. C. Mills, assistant i of the Kansas City branch of the Mutual. Mr. Mills has been through campaigns of this sort in Oklahoma and Texas and is an experienced man. It is sa.id that most ol the city commissioners are on the part 01 the exhibitors, but they fear the political effect of repealing the ordinance would undoubtedly welcome an injunction of this sort, as it would make tb< tral, while a repeal would make them unpopular with those favoring the .strict mday. Blue Stockings Hire Counsel. The Sundaj observers, [earing that the missioners will not protest with sufficient vigor against the repeal of the e, have retained < ». A. K< well known lawyer, to uphold th< ,,i the ease. The city churches have appointed ;. committee of three of the leading ministers to present their view of the Quy i.. Brown, who. for four years was supervising theater censor for the citj commission and church fed. -ration of Trenton, N. J., and who was at the head ol the "Cle Mov< ment" In N< w The exhibitors held a mass meeting at the Palace theater on June i, which "as attended bj a ver\ llTgt m fact, thai mans persons were turned .,« ..-. The pastor of tin Unitarian Church, Re> i. m. Birkhead, was m charge of th. and mad. a talk favorable to the theaters on Sunday. Mr. Mills « making the Bret big talk Ol the campaign \l, Mills did not tOUCh OB the subject ■•! the unconstitutionality of the i..w lug Sunday closing, but based I. ment on n.e theory thai the people ,,r Wichita wanted their RlOVlng picture thci aed on Bunday, the lami want Bundai baseball Th. outoome of this tight is being nrati ht ■! with much Inter**! bj ill 3 exhibitors and bj th! R w ho are l( ml. in ST*1 I .(Tort to the managers, Wn bit* I the It OOnd Olt) ami m\ action it may lake ..i, thll ISBlle will prob.lld ,,n tlo small, r I..U lis of the st it Sninl.it pll ' .lill.lt. .1 Colonial's New Policy. Wichita, Kans. — Don Powell, proprietor of the Colonial, has recently taken a very important step in the policy of his house, raising his price from five to ten cents per performance. Coincident with this he also signed a Blue Bird contract requiring a two-days run each week. The Regent's Fern Pots. Kansas City, Mo. — The new Regent theater of this city has gone one step farther than most theaters in regard to floral decorations. On the outside of the house, suspended from the beautiful canopy, six bowls of ferns have been hung. The bottom of these bowls has been covered with a grassy substance and the effect is certainly very pleasing. This house is located on Kansas City's busiest street and the freshness and novelty of the display is exceedingly refreshing, and especially pie; ung ' the ( To the Allisons, a Girl. "Doc" Allison, of the paper department of the Kansas City Feature Film, has been busy informing his fellow-workers of the .addition of a baby girl to his family. Although the maiden is rather young to map out her own career, it is freely predicted that she will eventually land in a Paramount picture. The child has as yet not been named, but the office force is full Qd Mr. Allison still has G. B. Howe Heads Local Associated. Alt. thr< l.ii ■ nit the Universal Film and Supply, G. R Hoi assistant manager, recently resigned his position. He is now active head of the Associated Film Service, 319 Qloyd Bldg.. formerly owned by H. H. Hill. Mr. Oill recently organized the Motion Picture Supply Company and his time will now be spent on directing the activities of that firm. He still retains an interest in his former enterprise, however The Road Man and His Roadster. Kansas City. Mo.— Salesman J. Krwin Dodson travels out of the local CJi Film and Supply Company's office in an automobile. With pleasant weather In the near future, and the convent, n ■ machine as a lino opines that he Will not only gain more p among the exhibitors but will materially \> it now st. i n its Mi. Dodson is the last winner of the UJ monthl) prize contest offered t>\ tile I'lll\ersal for the sal. -sin. in getting the most W. Beckenstein Goes to Unicorn. Willi;..., Beckenstein, traveler for the Pathe, is now connected with th. ■ Pathe w bile here v seated Pathe In K nsaa cm manage, Of the Kan not \,-t tilled the x in cetlons Willi thtf • repreM i-s.oi. i. ' B IM» I f lt> hi. in. h. has Contracts with over 100 moving picture lug t be "I i "ii i 'law ' is the i ,-, . • b] c B Bdwards, Jr, looa] mai the Patl thirty-nine In R • ..ol ma. is probablj nol equaled b) any In th