Moving Picture News (Jul-Oct 1913)

THE MOVING PICTURE NEWS 39 NEW CALIFORNIA MOTION PICTURE CORPORATION The California Motion Picture Corporation is the name of a new enterprise, incorporated for $1,000,000, in which articles have been filed here by thirteen leading business men of San Francisco, more than half of whom are rated well above the million-dollar mark. Herbert Payne, a local capitalist, is president, and his board of directors consists of twelve men whose reputation in financial circles is countrywide. They are: Robin Y. Hayne, Thomas B. Eastland, A. M. Johnson, Baldwin Wood, Clarence Payne, James Woods, Thomas A. Driscoll, Thomas Magee, George Lewis, Henry T. Scott, Walter S. Martin and R. P. Schwerin. The first release of the new corporation will be made before January 1, 1914. Special attention will be paid to the depicting of events in the early history of California, including the famous gold discovery at Sutter's Mill in 1848. Two and three-reel feature dramas and a weekly pictorial news service confined to the Pacific Coast, but booked for production throughout the world, will also be features that will be put out. The company is erecting a studio at Menlo Park, a fashionable San Francisco suburb. TRADE NOTES J. R. Freuler, vice-president of the Mutual Film Corporation, has just returned from Europe on the Mauretania, after an extended tour of several months through England, Germany, France, Holland and Switzerland. Accompanying him were his wife and two daughters, Gertrude and Loraine. Mr. Freuler, in addition to enjoying a very pleasant trip, was a careful observer of film conditions in Europe, where he has a number of business interests, which, he reports, are operating on a most favorable basis. On his return, he spent a number of days in New York, prior to returning home. A warm welcome was awarded him on his arrival at Milwaukee. George Teiwilliger, who before Saturday, September 20, was the undefeated swimmer of Lubinville, met his Waterloo before about one thousand spectators in the Schuylkill River in racing with Isadore Schwartz, assistant studio manager. Others in the race were Edwin Barbour, L. S. McCloskey, H. A. D'Arcy and Robert Lusk, who came in the order named. (Cheer up. George. — Ed.) So successful has the Famous Players Film Service of Pittsburgh been with the Famous Players Features in Western Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Ohio and Kentucky that it recently applied for and obtained the states of niinois and Indiana. These states are considered profitable feature territory and the Famous Players Film Service should more than duplicate its previous success. This concern contemplates establishing Western headquarters in Chicago. TO "G. K. R." We congratulate our friend George King Rolands on his production of "The Lure" in New York, the story of which is printed elsewhere. Miss Jennie Goldstein plays the part of Regina in this film. G. K. R. is a capable and scholarly producer of motion pictures, and we would be gratified to see him have the best opportunities in carrying out his artistic and dramatic ideas. Power's Cameragraph finds favor in many lines of endeavor. There has just been installed one No. 6A in the Y. M. C. A. of Newark, N. J., one No. 6A with the Hudson & Manhattan R. R. Co. The Coolest RESTAURANT On Your Next Visit to New York Do Not Fail to LUNCH at HOTEL MARTINIQUE BROADWAY AT 32nd STREET "The House of Taylor" Where you will be quickly and neatly served in cool and restful Dining Rooms with the best the market a^ords At Very Moderate Rates The MARTINIQUE is in the Heart of the Shopping District and Most Convenient to all Railroads and Car Lines. The Terminal Station of the Hudson Tubes is right at our doors, and the great Pennsylvania Station just one block away. Good music, refined and homelike. Chas. leigh Taylor, Pres. Walter Gilson, Vice-Pres. Walter Chandler, Jr., Manager STERLING Motion Picture Camera This camera is Guaranteed Absolutely Steady. It is fitted with Zeiss Tessar Lens; the New Patent Adjustable Dissolving Shutter and an Aperture Plate operated from the outside. 4-500 ft. Magazines. PRICES No. 2 . . . . _ . $350 No. 'I $250 STERLING CAMERA CO. 145 West 45th St., New York FREE SLIDES! Send in this advertisement together with four cents to cover postage and we will send you free a feature player slide of the Mutual, General or Universal Co FREE SLIDES! ^ake advantage of this opportunity as this advertise' ment may not appear again. BRASS AND GLASS SLIDES OF EVERY DESCRIPTION AT LOWEST PRICES GREATER NEW YORK SL.IDE CO. 136 Third Avenue, NEW YORK CITY In writing to advertisers please mention "MOVING PICTURE NEWS"