Moving Picture World (May 1919)

Page scan 00075 from Moving Picture World

Record Details:

Title:
Moving Picture World
Date:
May 1919
Publisher:
New York, Chalmers Publishing Company
Volume:
Moving Picture World (May 1919)
Leaf #:
00075
Language:
English
Subjects:
Motion Pictures, Film Industry Trade Magazine",nyarc-museumofmodernar
Collection:
Early Cinema and Hollywood Studio System
Format:
Periodicals
Contributor:
The Museum of Modern Art Library, New York
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Moving Picture World, founded in 1907 by J.P. Chalmers, was one of the motion picture industry's first trade papers. Published on a weekly basis in New York City, Moving Picture World informed exhibitors about films available for rental and editorialized on behalf of the growing industry (improving the quality of movies through higher filmmaking standards, not government censorship, was a frequent topic). The paper reached its height in the mid-to-late-1910s--a fact reflected in the circulation figures and the huge amount of advertising that filled every issue during the period. In the 1920s, Moving Picture World lost ground to other competing weekly trade papers -- including Variety, Exhibitor's Herald, and Motion Picture News. In 1927, Moving Picture World ceased publication when it was acquired by Martin Quigley's Exhibitor's Herald. Across the 20 year run of Moving Picture World, readers can watch the transition from short film programs to feature films and witness the transition from the dominance of Edison's Trust to the rise of the "Independent" film companies that ultimately became the Hollywood studios. Silent film historians have utilized and cited Moving Picture World more frequently than any other trade paper, and the publication still has many insights left to offer. -- Eric Hoyt, 2012/2013
Date Added:
August 08, 2024
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May 3, 1919 THE MOVING PICTURE WORLD 645 ON THE SCREEN IN MANY CITIES. Minneapolis. Garrick (J. K. Johnson). — The Turn In the Road (Exhibitors Mutual). WtnnlpeKProvince (H. J. Jernberg). — William S. Hart in The Poppy Girl's Husband (Artcraft). Gaiety (H. J. Jernberg). — Dorothy Phillips in The Heart of Humanity (Universal). Pliiladelpliia. Fairmount (H. M. S. Kendrick). — Griffith's The Girl Who Stayed at Home (Artcraft); Constance Talmadge in Experimental Marriage (Select); Marguerite Clark in Three Men and a Girl (Paramount). Lios Angrelea. Broadway (T. L. Tally). — Alice Brady in The Hollow of Her Hand cSelect). Indianapolis. Circle (S. Barret McCormick). — The Turn of the Road (Exhibitors Mutual); Madge Kennedy in Daughter of Mine (Goldwyn). Eurel^a, Cal. Orpheum (J. Lindsay Brown). — Alma Rubens in Diane of the Green Van (Exhibitors Mutual) ; George Walsh in I'll Say So (Fox). Detroit. Majestic (Geo. E. Guise). — William Faversham in Silver King (Paramount); Vivian Martin in Little Comrade (Paramount). Madison (John H. Kunsky). — D. W. Griffith's The Girl Who Stayed at Home (Artcraft). Washington (John H. Kunsky). — The Price of Innocence" (First National Exhibitors' Circuit). Adams (John H. Kunsky).— Constance Talmadge in "Experimental Marriage (Select). Liberty (John H. Kunsky). — Gladys Brockwell in The Pitfalls of a Great City (Fox); Norma Talmadge in The Probation Wife (Select). New York City. Strand (Joseph L. Plunkett). — Geraldine Farrar in The Stronger Vow (Goldwyn). Eighty-first Street (A. L. Shackman). — Henry B. Walthall in Modern Husbands (Exhibitors Mutual); Charles Ray in The Sheriff's Son (Paramount). Rivoli (Hugo Riesenfeld). — Charles Ray in Greased Lightning (Paramount). Rlalto (Hugo Riesenfeld). — Cecil B. De Mille's For Better for Worse (Artcraft). Fox's Audubon (Ben Jackson). — John Barrymore in The Test of Honor (Artcraft) ; William Farnum in The Jungle Trail (Fox). Fox's Academy of Music (Charles Wuerz). — William Farnum in The Jungle Trail (Fox); Ethel Clayton in Pettigrew's Girl (Artcraft); George Walsh in Help! Help! Police! (Fox); Priscilla Dean in The Exquisite Thief (Universal). Another Triumvirate — David Belasco, Mabel Taliaferro and Cyril Maude. Who will produce Universal's Stage Women's War Relief series. Fox's Bay Ridge (William Waldron). — Dorothy Dalton in Extravagance (Artcraft) ; William Farnum in The Jungle Trail (Fox). Fox's Bedford (Harry W. Moore). — William Russell in Brass Buttons (PatheAmerican) ; Mae Marsh in Spotlight Sadie (Goldwyn). Fox's Comedy (David Schaefer). — George Walsh in Help! Help! Police! (Fox); William Farnum in The Jungle Trail (Fox). Fox's Crotona (Phillip Levy). — Charles Ray in The Sheriff's Son (Artcraft); George Walsh in Help! Help! Police! (Fox). Fox's City (Sam Pried). — Taylor Holmes in A Regular Fellow (Triangle); Crane Wilbur in Devil M'Care (Triangle). Fox's Folly (Harry Lipkowitz). — Madlaine Traverse in The Love That Dares (Fox) ; William Farnum in The Jungle Trail (Fox), Fox's Jamaica (John Spagna). — Elsie Ferguson in The Marriage Price (Artcraft) ; William Farnum in The Jungle Trail (Fox). Fox's Ridgewood (A. H. Anderson). — Charles Ray in The Sheriff's Son (Artcraft); William S. Hart in The Poppy Girl's Husband (Artcraft). Fox's Star (Arthur E. Smith). — George Walsh in Help! Help! Police! (Fox); William Farnum in The Jungle Trail (Fox). Fox's Terminal (Fred M. Schafer). — George Walsh in Help! Help! Police! (Fox); Madlaine Traverse in The Love That Dares (Fox). Card Gets More Responsibility. Lynn S. Card, general sales manager, Independent Sales Corporation and Film Clearing House, Inc., has been given the added responsibility of han dling the executive end of the sales on the Kothapfel Unit Program. With the release of the first Charles Miller production, started this week at the BaconBa'<er studio under the direction of Mr. Miller, Mr. Card will have another list of sales to promote. Mr. Card has the supervision of 18 Film Clearing House exchanges. Goldwyn Moves its Main Office to Fifth Avenue THE main offices of the Goldwyn Pictures Corporation and the Goldwyn Distributing Corporation will be moved on Saturday April 26 from 16 East 42d street to the eighth floor of the Winfield Building at 469 Fifth avenue. No greater commentary on the growth of the Goldwyn organization can be made than the fact that within the two and one-half years of its existence it has been necessary to more than double the floor space required for the transaction of its business. Whereas, at 16 East 42d street, only five thousand square feet were occupied by this growing concern, at the new quarters something more than ten thousand square feet will be occupied. The Winfield building, of course, will only be used for the main offices. The foreign and exchange offices of Goldwyn comprising over 7,000 square feet, will continue to be at 509 Fifth avenue, and the warehouse at 14th street, ten thousand square feet in area will remain in the same place. A new arrangement of offices will be made on removal to the Winfield building. Apart from the offices of the six Goldwyn executives, which will be partitioned off and private, all departments will be out in the open, forming an expanse of several hundred desks. Here's the New Combination Which Will Make Jack London Pictures. C. E. Shurtleff and J. Frank Brockliss, seen on either side of the late Jack London, who have formed the C. E. Shurtleff Company to picturize the London stories. Elaine Hammerstein Is Selznick's Third Star SELZNICK Pictures Corporation announces it has secured the exclusive services of Elaine Hammerstein. She becomes the third star under the Selznick banner. Miss Hammerstein is to start work shortly. Miss Hammerstein is the daughter of .\rthur Hammerstein, the theatrical producer, and a great granddaughter of the famous Oscar. She made her first appearance upon the legitiniate stage at the tender age of five. Her first picture was "The Face in the Moonlight."