The Moving picture world (May 1925-June 1925)

June 13, 1925 MOVING PICTURE WORLD 743 Warners Building $1,500,000 House on Coast; Also First Run in Kansas Kansas-Missouri Back in Fold Through approval of the board of directors of the M. P. T. O. KansasMissouri that organization this week became affiliated with the M. P. T. O. A. The affiliation of Allied, which the M. P. T. O. K.-M. joined at the organization of that body, and the M. P. T. O. A. at the national convention at Milwaukee did not necessarily mean that the Kansas-Missouri association automatically became affiliated with the national body, President R. R. Biechele explained. Kansas-Missouri was the first organization to decide to send representatives to the national convention. "I went to the national convention merely as an onlooker," Mr. Biechele, who was elected to the board of directors of the M. P. T. O. A., said, "and had no thought of allowing my name to come up for office of any kind. My organization appointed me is an official observer at the convention— nothing else. However, when it became apparent at the convention that Allied would affiliate with M. P. T. O. A. for the good of the industry, I could not help but remember that at the M. P. T. O. K.-M. convention a few days before that there was a strong predominating sentiment to affiliate with the national body, even before the national convention. Therefore, when I was urged to accept the office as national director, I did so only subject to the consequent approval of the M. P. T. O. K.-M. directors. They have made that approval. They have approved affiliation with the national body. So, that is settled." For ADDED ADMISSIONS— Advertise Your Short Subjects ! Hollywood Theatre to Be Independent Stronghold Seating 3,000 — Ready hy Jan. 1 — Six New Theatres Qoing Up in San Francisco WARNER BROS, announced this week they were about to start building in Hollywood a new house to be known as Warner's Hollywood Theatre at a cost of $1,500,000. They plan it to be one of the show places of the west coast. A large first-run downtown theatre in Kansas City is being contemplated by Warner Brothers, H. M. Warner, president of the corporation, said in Kansas City this week. A definite site has not yet been selected, but negotiations will be completed within two weeks, Mr. Warner said. With the erection of the Warner Brothers' Theatre, four of the six first-run houses will be producer-controlled and the remaining two operated by a chain. Title to the Hollywood property was taken last week and the plans are being completed by Architect Landsburg, of Los Angeles. In announcing the new theatre, Harry M. Warner states that the Hollywood house is only the first of their theatres planned in big cities where they have been unable to obtain a show for their product. Before they are through, he stated, they intend to lease or build theatres in all big cities where first runs are now denied them. The Warner in Hollywood will be 120 by 300 feet on a lot 196 by 300 in the heart of Hollywood and only a stone's throw from Grauman's Egyptian Theatre. It will contain many features new in theatre construction, it is also announced. The plans call for a structure built much in the shape of the New York Woolworth Building, with a 150-foot steel tower rising from the roof. This tower will have at the top a revolving beacon light with a radius of seven miles and also contain chimes to be operated from the organ pit. The theatre will contain a balcony and seat about 3,000 persons. The architecture will be Gothic. The stage will contain a concealed tank on the order of the New York Hippodrome, which will be used for presentations. The entire theatre will be so built that it can be dressed anew whenever desired by a simple changing of lighting effects. From the interior there will be a winding stairway to the roof and tower which will be open to the public and give a fine panorama view of the surrounding country from the Pacific Ocean to the high Sierras. The stairway will have three landings and on each landing will be a motion picture museum containing many of the first cameras and other paraphernalia. The second floor will consist of one of the largest ball rooms in the West and plans call for a mammoth ice skating palace in the basement. There will be a sub-cellar which will be used for free parking, space being provided for 400 cars, which will be taken charge of by attendants and delivered to the owners after the performance, at r*..d door. The Warner's broadcasting station K1<WB, now located f the studio, is to be moved to the new the ..re. It is planned to have the theatre coi pleted by January 1. ti. M. Warner stated that in addition to their own product, they would play the pictures of other companies and put on "the finest performance in Los Angeles." Six Other Theatres Samuel H. Levin, 2055 Union street, San Francisco, is having plans prepared for a theatre seating 2,500 to be erected on Polk street, near Broadway. Contracts have been awarded by George Lagomarsino for a picture theatre to be erected at Mission and Oliver streets, San Francisco. A picture theatre seating 350 is to be erected by Leo Ruegg on San Bruno avenue, San Francisco, at an estimated cost of $25,000. Contracts have been awarded by B. Getz, De Young Building, San Francisco, for the erection of a picture theatre at West Portal, St. Francis Wood. Plans are being made by the National Theatres Syndicate of Northern California for the erection of an 1,800-seat theatre at Taft, Cal. W. S. Senn has remodeled the Palace Theatre on Union street, San Francisco, and installed new furnishings. The Republic Theatre, San Francisco, has been taken over by Charles Michaels. 235% Dividend Is Declared by Fox The William Fox board of directors is credited with declaring a dividend of 235 per cent, of which 200 per cent, will go to stockholders, constituting a limited number, and the remainder will be apportioned to employees who, in the judgment of the directorate, have contributed noticeably towards the company's success. An application, it is learned, has also been made for the listing of 165,000 shares on the New York Stock Exchange. These, it is believed, will be offered at slightly below $50 per share. The total Fox assets are placed at $18,000,000.