The Moving picture world (January 1922)

92 MOVING PICTURE WORLD January 7, 1922 Seattle J. G. Von Herberg denies that the Winter Garden Theatre has passed under the management of Jensen & Von Herberg. Never- theless, James Q. Clemmer's name, as manager, has been stricken from the theatre's advertisements, and the new policy of the theatre is to play second-runs of the big successes shown at Jensen & Von Herberg first-run houses. * * * It is rumored in well informed film circles of Seattle that Metro will be distributed through Goldwyn next year. Manager Carl Stearn, of the local Metro office, was called back to New York on very short notice this week. He left Friday, December 23. * * * R. L. Daly has succeeded Louis Kastner as manager of the Liberty Theatre, Wenatchee, Washington, which is owned by the Northwest Theatre Company, of that city. The Liberty opened three years ago under the management of Walter Kastner, Louis's brother, and he remained in that position until his death over a year ago. when Louis took charge of the theatre. * * * The Rialto Theatre, Anacortes, has been re-opened, after being closed for some time, by A. A. Vivian. * * ♦ Ray Grumbacher, manager of the Liberty Theatre, Spokane, has taken over the Hippodrome, in which he has inaugurated a policy of straight pictures. * * * L. C. Tomlinson. who opened the Salt Lake office for Greater Fea- tures, hps returned to Seattle to his old position as assistant manager of the head office. if * George E. Jackson, manager of the Seattle Vitagraph office, drove down to Portland this week to spend Christmas. * * * Howard Mapes. president of the Interstate Film Exchange of Port- land, was in Seattle this week on a business trip. * * * John Rugar, assistant maanger of the Seattle Vitagraph office, has re- turned to spend the holidays after a several weeks' trip through the Portland territory. * * « H. F. (Nick) Nicholson, Vita- graph salesman, returned this week from a trip through the Spokane territory. * ♦ ♦ Phil J. Brady, of the Granhos- cope Service Company, is in Port- land. * * • R. W. Aust. retiring manager of Realart, is leaving this week for Los Angeles. * * * C. H. Wade, retiring Realart salesrran, has accepted a position with the Seattle office of Hodkinson to travel out of Spokane. * * * A. B. Ballantine, formerly with Realart, is now traveling for Goldwyn. Another salesman Just added to the Goldwyn force is C. J. Magary. H: if * L. O. Lukan, Northwest manager for First National, held a get- together meeting of the Montana franchise holders on December 13. J. G. Van Hertberg also attended the conference. if * If Jimmie Carrier, exploitation rep- resentative for Robertson-Cole, ar- raged to have a crowd of children who had marched in a parade put on by one of the Seattle newspapers to finish their march at the Winter Garden and see "When Lights Are Low." The children entering the theatre attracted others, and the consequence was an unusual business for that day. * * * Harry Ballance, one-time Seattle resident, now general sales manager for Famous Players, visited the Seattle office this week. Mr. Bal- lance is on a tour of all the Coast offices, accompanied by M. H. Lewis, assistant to the district man- ager. Herman Wobber, district man- ager, also came up from San Fran- cisco. * * * W. E. Gowen has succeeded W. H. Cope as manager of the Oregon Vitagraph territory. * * * The Isis Theatre in Ellensburg, which has been closed for some time, has been reopened by Ed. \N hitesel. if if If The Winter Garden Theatre changed this week to a second run policy. * * * P. B. Dana, who came to Seattle to open the new office for Arrow Photoplay Company, left on Decem- ber 14 for Los Angeles. He plan- ned to meet J. Goldstein, general manager of the company, in Port- land. Mr. Goldstein will appoint a permanent manager for the Seattle office while here. * * * R. W. Cram, former owner of the Arcade Theatre in Walla Walla, and more recently manager of the Colonial in Seattle, is now manag- ing The Liberty in Walla Walla. * * * The Alcazar Theatre in Great Falls, Montana, has been taken over by P. A. Iverson of Cutbank. * * * The Strand, Billings, Motana, has been taken over by O'Keefe and Duncan. E. C. O'Keefe will man- age the house. San Francisco The W. W. Hodkinson ex- change has been moved to quart- ers at 284 Turk street which \yill be occupied until a new building can be erected for it on adjoining property. * * * The Educational Film Corpor- ation has completed arrange- ments to move to its new home on Turk street and will have many conveniences there that are not enjoyed on Golden Gate ave- nue. A projection room is being fitted up, a Power's machine having been purchased from G. A. Met- calfe. * * ♦ Wayland Hoyt Taylor, director of exploitation at the local office of the Famous Players-Lasky Corporation, has arranged to make a trip to Los Angeles to visit the studios and theatres. This will be his first visit to that city. Sid Martenstein, formerly of the sales staff of Realart, has ac- cepted a position with the Uni- versal exchange and will cover the Sacramento Valley and Neva- da territory. Jack Frazier, who has had this field for several j'ears, and who has developed such a splendid business there, has been made special Jewel rep- resentative for the entire terri- tory covered by the San Fran- cisco exchange. * » » Irving P. Arnold, formerly with Famous Players-Lasky but more recently with the Fred B. War- ren Corporation, has returned to the former concern. * * * E. T. W^akefield, well known in this territory, has joined the staff of Vitagraph, Inc., and will cover the San Francisco and Oakland territory. * * * Business at the William Fox ex- change has increased to such an extent that the present quarters are proving too small and it has been decided to move to a new location on Turk street as soon as a building can be erected for its needs. * * * Fred Lahm, who recently took over the Rialto Theatre at Ook- dale, Cal., has closed the other house he controls there and has stripped it of its equipment. * * * Frank Atkins, of the Atkins Theatre, Marysville, Cal., was a recent visitor in town and an- nounced his intention of building a theatre at Yuba City. * * * The Western Theatre Supply Company is re-equipping the Pat- terson Theatre at Patterson, Cal., as well as the Regal Theatre ai Mayfield, Cal. * * * G. .\. Metcalfe has furnished a Zenith portable projection ma- chine to a Japanese travelling company headed by S. Oku. ♦ ♦ ♦ The T. & D. Jr. Circuit has ar- ranged to close the Rialto Thea- tre at Reno, Nev., for a time, but will continue to operate the Ma- jestic and the Grand Theatres. * * * The Sequoia Theatre at Oak- land, Cal., is being dismantled. This is a well-known residence district house. * * * A convention of house managers of the Loew Circuit was held at the San Francisco headquarters of the western division just before Christ- mas, the gathering being presided over by E. A. Schiller, general representative of the circuit. * * * Charles W, Heyer has announc- ed his intention of erecting a the- atre at Havwood, Cal., to cost about $100,000. * * * Edward Meyer, head of the vis- ual instruction department of the extension division of the Univer- sity of California, states that the use of moving pictures for educa- tional work is constantly increas- ing. During the month of Novem- ber this department circulated 377 pictures to non-theatrical or- ganizations, such as churches, schools and clubs. Four years ago, he said, there were but fifty schools and churches in California using educational pictures, while today they number more than 700. Buffalo Bruce Fowler, manager of the Elmwood Theatre, is holding two special matinees during Christmas week, one on Wednesday, when "The Last of the Mohicans" will be .shown, and one of Friday, when ".-Mice Through the Looking Glass" will be the feature. He is sug^rest- ing that patrons buy Ixjoks of tickets to the Elmwood as Christmas pres- ents. A saving of SO cents is made on each book, containing ten tickets. A new stage setting has been in- stalled at the Elmwood. Business continues excellent, declares Mr. Fowler. * * * Admiral Fred M. Zimmerman is certainly giving his patrons at the Avondale Theatre, North Tona- wanda, some great holiday pro- grams. The line-up follows: "Mother O' Mine." "Lying Lips," "The Sheik," "Three Musketeers." "Queen of Sheba" and "Connecti- cut Yankee." * * * The Niagara Falls police are hold- ing three men who, they allege, broke into the box office of the Hippo- drome Theatre and stole $15 in cash and an electric heater. * • * Captain Hyland has opened the DufTerin street parish hall in Bridge- burg, Ont., as a picture honse under the name of the Regent Theatre. * * * B. B. Dennison, district passenger aeent for the N. Y. C. railroad, an- nounces hat the train which leaves Buffalo at 11:15 p. m. for Niagara Falls has been discontinued. The train is not serving its purpose as a theatre train for Falls folk, said Mr. Dennison, who declares that few people are attending the theatre in Buffalo from Niasara Falls these days and those who do go use either the trolley or their own automobiles. Falls theatres are putting on excel- lent programs and are holding folks in town, perhaps. * * * Fred M. Zimmerman represented the F. I. L. M. Club of BuflFalo at the meeting of the execut've com- mittee of the state M. P. T. O. A. in Utica last week. Other Buf- falonians present Howard T. Smith, president of the Western New York unit; Richard C. Fox, Select man- aeer and vice-nresident of the Buf- falo F. I. L. M. Club; M. A. Chase, T Universal manaper. and M. H. Markowitz, United Artists * * * The Western New York unit of the M. P. T. O. h. has started a movement to get the BuflFalo city council to repeal the daylight sav- ings law. It is claimed the measure hurts business in the summer. A bill was introduced last Wednesday. * ♦ * T. W. Brady, who recently man- a<yed the BuflFalo F. B. Warren of- fice and one of the be=t known film men in Western New York, has been a"Poin*eH sales manaeer at the Buf- falo Hodkinson oflfioe. succeeding Howard Boyle. Mr. Brndy has as- sumed his new duties. The BuflFalo Hodkinson oflRce is now at 145 Franklin street. Mr. Brady was formerly manager of the Select and A. P. Exchanges in BuflFalo.