Moving Picture World (Jan-Mar 1913)

THE MOVING PICTURE WORLD 589 MAKE FILM OF OWN FIRE. Disaster in no form can daunt Thanhouser. The other week they lost their Eastern studio at New Rochelle by fire, and behold! their cameras and players were busy producing a picture of the transpiring right on the scene of it, and while the embers were still warm. Since the birth of the Thanhouser business their producers have been on the scene of every fire round about without fail. Often they beat the newspaper cameras to it. in the press, is a feature of the picture, which has been called "When the Studio Burned," released Tuesday, February 4th. "When the Studio Burned." So it was meet, in C. J. Kite's opinion, that the Thanhouser blaze be duly and properly recorded. A scenario embodying the story of the fire as printed in the newspapers was prepared by Lloyd F. Lonergan, and Director Marston produced it with a company headed by Marguerite Snow, James Cruze, the Thanhouser kid and the Thanhouser kidlet. The stirring rescue of the kidlet by Miss Snow, as narrated ROSKAM RESIGNS FROM "WORLD'S BEST." Owing to the growth of the Commercial Motion Pictures Company, Inc., Edward M. Roskam, president of the company, had been forced to -ever his connections with the World's Best Film Company in order to handle the orders received daily from various feature manufacturers, exchange men and camera men, for developing and printing at the factory, 102 West loist Street. Mr. Roskam wishes to announce that the Commercial Motion Pictures Company, Inc., is in no way connected with Mr. Carl Laemmle or the Universal Film Manufacturing Company. H. T. Edwards Buys Picture Theatre Equipment Company, The Picture Theater Equipment Company, 21 East 14th Street, New York City, has been sold by the estate of the late J. P. Chalmers to Mr. H. T. Edwards. Mr. Edwards has been manager of the business for nearly a year past and is well known in the trade. We understand he intends to enlarge the business along several lines and believe his many friends will wish him every success at the head of his own business. The location is one of the most central in the city and is quite near to most of the large film exchanges. To Show First Marion Leonard Feature Exhibitors, exchange men, and all interested in the moving picture industry, are cordially invited to attend the public exhibition of the first Marion Leonard feature production, "AS IN A LOOKING GLASS," TO BE HELD AT LEW FIELDS' BROADWAY THEATER, BROADWAY AND 41st STREET, NEW YORK, ON WEDNESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 5th, AT :o:3o O'CLOCK, AS GUESTS OF THE Monopol Film Company, TT Herman Fichtenberg, of New Orleans.^ He is one of the pioneer exhibitors of the south, and has several large and elegant theatres in New Orleans, La., Houston, Texas, and Vicksburg, Miss. He is a successful man. His judgment has been good. This is what he thinks of the DO YOU KNO\^' THE PEER OF ALL PROJECTORS New Orleans, January 9, 1913. Precision Machine Company, 317 East 34th Street, New York City. Gentlemen: Ship via Morgan Steamship Line two (2) of your latest model Simplex Machines to me immediately at this office, 720 Maison-Blanche Building. I expect to open a new moving picture theatre very shortly and this will make six of my houses that have two machines in each. I must congratulate you on the machine you have and am glad to place another order with you. I wish to advise that the two machines we have in our Alamo Theatre are now sixteen months old and are just as good as the day we put them in. Would like to have a reply from you as to when the machines will leave New York. With best wishes, I beg to remain. Very truly yours, (Signed) H. FICHTENBERG. MADE BY Why hesitate longer? Write to-day for catalogue A and name and address of the nearest Simplex dealer. 517 EAST 54th STREET NEW YORK CISION MACHINE CO.