Moving Picture World (Jul-Sep 1915)

292 THE MOVING PICTURE WORLD July 10, 1915 Beverly Bayne in honor of Miss Beverly Bayne, one of Essanay's popular stars. "Miss Bayne is a Chicago girl and as such is entitled to the loyal support of all the Chicago picture theater-goers," said Mr. Hamburger. "I discovered during the recent run of 'Graustark,' at the Ziegfeld, that she had a great following among the fans, and I decided then to call my next theater Beverly Bayne." Miss Bayne, naturally, appreciates the honor highly, and when she was informed of Mr. Hamburger's intention she said: "I am especially pleased to have a theater located in my own neighborhood bearing my name. Mr. Hamburger tells me that the request that he should name this theater after me comes from the moving picture fans, and, needless to say, this fills me with joy. Living in Chicago, as I do, I should feel badly if the Chicago people did not like me." * * * "Little Pal," a Paramount feature, with Mary Pickford in the leading role, is chief of the moving picture attractions at Orchestra Hall for the current week. "Rip Van Winkle" was the special weekly attraction for children at this house Saturday morning, June 26. These children's exhibitions are growing very popular. * * * "The Spendthrift," George Kleine's six-reel feature photodrama, took so well at the Ziegfeld last week that it has been retained for another week. * * * "The White Sister," Essanay's fine six-reel photodrama, adapted from F. Marion Crawford's play of that name, entered upon an indefinite run at the Fine Arts theater on Saturday, Tune 26. Viola Allen has captured the moving picture fans in this, her first, effort in photodramatic work. * * * "Prohibition," which received its opening presentation at the Studebaker on Thursday, June 24, is drawing well. * * * The Colonial theater is running "The Sins of the Mothers" for the first part of the week, beginning Monday. June 28. This, it will be remembered, is the $1,000 prize photodrama written bv Elaine Sterne, the judges being John Bunny, Maurice Costello, Don Marquis, Errol Bart and Edward M. La Roche. * * * "The Birth of a Nation" entered the fourth week of its run at the Illinois theater Saturday, June 26. The house is crowded daily, both at matinees and evenings. * * * Miss Maibelle Heikes Justice, who has been suffering from nervous prostration for some time past, owing to the shocking news of the drowning of her only sister, Mrs. R. Delno Shymer on the Lusitania, is slowly regaining her health at the home of her mother in New York. The body of Mrs. Shymer was recovered and shipped to New York, but all the others were lost. It has developed that Mrs. Shymer got into a life boat just as the Lusitania turned over and sank, and the boat was drawn down into the vortex. A few moments before she had been assured by an officer that there was no danger. Miss Heikes Justice is contemplating a journey far into the North, in the near future, where she will remain until the fall, when she hopes to resume her work. * * * The Selig publicity department is to be complimented on the handsome and artistically printed booklet which gives the story of "The Rosary." This will be a valuable aid to exhibitors, as it has "class" of a distinctive type. * * * The Photoplay Releasing Company is now selling territorial rights for the Auto-Derby at the Chicago Speedway Park. Two thousand feet showing all the exciting and thrilling passages in the great race are offered. The pictures were taken by the Advance Motion Picture Co., and they show fine photography throughout. * * * Harry Weiss has resigned as manager of the Chicago office of the World Film Corporation to accept the management of the Chicago office of the Metro Pictures Corporation. * * * Watterson Rothacker. general manager of the Industrial Moving Picture Co., left for Los Angeles to join his wife and baby Saturday. June 26. They will return to Chicago after visiting the Frisco Fair and touring the Pacific Coast as far north as Vancouver. B. C. * * * H. C. Luedtke, former owner of the Star theater. Waukegan, 111., purchased the Columbia theater in Kenosha, Wis., about a month ago from Charles Staehle, The Columbia seats 550 people and charges 5 and 10 cents admission for programs of four and six reels of Mutual service. Mr. Luedtke stated that he is running "The Diamond from the Sky" to very good business. "The Christian" was shown recently for 10 cents to capacity houses. Mr. Luedtke is figuring on installing a balcony in the Columbia, to seat about 200 people. Business in Kenosha is very good. Mr. Luedtke was a caller at our office Tuesday, June 29. Six Months of Metro New Feature Exchange Reveals Marked Success — Has Many Noted Stars. JULY 4 marks the sixth month of the Metro Pictures Corporation and the first year in existence of B. A. Rolfe Photo Plays and The Popular Plays and Players, and when Richard A. Rowland, President and General Manager of the Metro concern announced that the corporation is now on a paying basis and that it had accomplished within twenty-three weeks what the most sanguine Metroite anticipated doing in a year, an excellent idea of the rapidity with which Metro has assumed national importance, can be gained. Metro and its producing allies now control the efforts of forty-four stage stars. Among those who work permanently and exclusively for Metro are: William Faversham, Francis X. Bushman, Mine. Petrova, Emily Stevens, Edmund Breese, Orrin Johnson, Valli Valli, Florence Reed, Mary Miles M i n t e r, Olive Wyndham and Ethel Barrymore. The stage personages engaged for just one picture, or more, are Emmy W e h 1 e n, the V i e n e s e actress recently seen at the Casino, Howard Estabrook, Edward Connelly who will be seen shortly in Geo. Ade's "M arse Covington," Gail Kane who will appear in the Popular riays and Players production of "Her Great Match;" Ralph Herz, last seen in "A Pair of Sixes," at the Longacre Theater, will co-star with Lois Meredith in Sidney Rosenfeld's "The Purple Lady." Hamilton Revelle, one Emmy Wehlen. of the foremost lead ing men on the American stage, will appear co-jointly with Emily Stevens in a production of an original scenario, "The Liars," while Ann Murdock, seen in "A Celebrated Case" at the Empire, will begin work this week at the Dyreda Studio on Frohman's "A Royal Family." Mme. Petrova will appear in five more pictures before January 1, 1916. Her forthcoming two productions will be "Vampire," a virile dramatic document, and "My Madonna" from the poem by the same name from Robert W. Service's collection of Arctic classics. Edmund Breese will appear in four other plays. "The Spell of the Yukon." "Gold" and other adaptations from Service's works. Ethel Barrymore wili begin work shortly on a production of her most recent stage success. "The Shadow," and will perhaps appear in another Rolfe-Metro play. Francis X. Bushman and Marguerite Snow, working under the Quality Pictures banner, will be seen in six productions within the next eight months. "The Second in Command" from the play, will be their first. A filmization of "Richard Carvel" will follow and then Otis Skinner's former vehicle, "The Silent Voice" will come on the regular Metro program. At the San Francisco convention the Metro representatives will argue for longer runs and less pictures. Withstanding all requests for a larger output. General Manager Rowland announced this week to the exchanges that Metro would not increase its output, that fifty-two pictures a year were sufficient and that longer runs and more careful attention to presentation detail would be more beneficial to the trade than a change of features every day or two,