Moving Picture World (Oct-Dec 1914)

THE MOVING PICTURE WORLD 51 1' ) "A FACTORY MAGDALEN" (Sawyer). Elwood F. Bostwick has been spending a busy three weeks in Stillwater, Rhode Island, directing the Edyth Totten feature, "A Factory Magdalen," which will soon be marketed by Sawyer, Inc. It was originally intended to make this a four-reeler, but it has been found that it is impossible to condense the action into a film of that length, so it will be in five. The company, headed by Miss Totten, has been very fortunate indeed, and from the four thousand feet so far exhibited in the Pompeiian Projecting Room, there is every reason to believe that the picture will be a great success. Scene from "The Factory Magdalen" (Sawyer). The actor second in importance to Miss Totten is four legged and his name is "Rex." The brilliant performance of this canine genius was due to long police department training, and during the course of the swiftly moving events visualized, he traces and captures the murderer and three thieves, rescues Miss Totten from a whirling millstream, and does lots of other stunts that makes his owner a proud man. The Providence Sunday Journal recently devoted a full page and a half to a story dealing with the making of the picture. WURLITZER ISSUES FINE CATALOG. The forty-eight page catalog of automatic musical instruments issued by the Rudolph Wurlitzer Company of Cincinnati, Ohio, is a handsomely illustrated piece of sales literature which will interest the exhibitor who contemplates installing a self-playing orchestra. The catalog illustrates, in actual colors, various styles of automatic harps, electric pianos, with and without mandolin attachments, flute and violin pipes, drum and triangle accompaniments; also orchestras and violin pianos. In addition, several types of military bands are shown, as well as an ingenious control mechanism, by which a nickel may be dropped into a receiving box and the instument started from any part of the hall which may be desired. The information regarding instrumentation, dimensions and shipping weight of each style is very complete in detail and the catalog will prove a very helpful aid in the selection of something suitable for any house, from the most modest to the most pretentious. R. HENDERSON BLAND GOES ON THE STAGE. R. Henderson Bland, the English actor who became known to picture followers through his reverential portrayal of the character of Christ in Kalem's "From the Manger to the Cross," has gone on tour with William Elliott's "Kitty Mackay" company. Mr. Bland is playing the part of Lord Inglehart. He admits that his interest in his stage work is diminished by reason of the conflict now raging in Europe. Mr. Bland has two brothers in active service — one is now in hospital in England, having been wounded — and a third on the way with a battalion from South Africa. While in New York this week Mr. Bland visited the offices of the British consul for the purpose of offering his services. SCREEN CLUB MEETS ON OCTOBER 30. The annual meeting of the Screen Club takes place on the evening of October 30. at which time the officers for the coming year will be duly installed. will have a capacity of WILLIAM EPSTEIN. ANEW theater to cost $1,000,000, for the presentation of motion pictures de luxe is now in the hands oi architects and construction will shortly be begun on San Antonio's busiest street. William Epstein, owner of the Royal Theater, the 2,500-seat house in San Antonio, is the man who believes in million-dollar theaters. The new temple of pictures seating 4,500. Under the same roof will also be a magnificent ballroom, bowling alleys and billiard rooms. The Royal Theater now houses exclusively the Paramount Program in San Antonio. To this amusement enterprise Mr. Epstein has devoted the major portion of his time since he sold out his interests in the Southern Feature Program Association of which he was the organizer. Mr. Epstein has just returned to Texas after a two weeks' stay in New York. While here he purchased a thousand-dollar fountain of the same variety that adorns the Strand Theater in New York, also a huge electric sign. Mr. Epstein still has his eyes open for the main chance in feature film renting and while in Manhattan purchased the rights on "The Black. Triangle" for the states of Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas and Oklahoma. It is probable that he will also buy the rights on the second release of the Webb Detective Series, "The Man in the Cellar." William Epstein. CINEMA EXHIBITORS CLUB WILL DANCE. It is announced that the annual entertainment and ball of the Cinema Exhibitors Club of the Bronx, New York, will be held at Hunts Point Palace, 163d Street and Southern Boulevard, on the evening of October 31. Tom Moore of the Kalem Company, and Mary Fuller of the Universal will lead the grand march. GOEBEL VISITS HIS CALIFORNIA STUDIO. O. E. Goebel, president of the St. Louis Motion Picture Company, St. Louis, Mo., is the studio of his company. Santa Paula, Cal., visiting "Big A Features, Ltd.," a company registered in London last year, has been dissolved in bankruptcy, with liabilities of nearly $15,000 and practically no assets. A. Goldgraber was the principal director, and the company appears to have had extensive transactions in America. AN AEROPLANE ACCIDENT PICTURED. In a forthcoming Eclectic release entitled "The King of the Air" a sensational aeroplane accident is shown with startling reality. The plane is seen to fall from a height of ully 200 feet and is dashed in pieces on the ground.