The Moving picture world (November 1922-December 1922)

December 16, 1922 MOVING PICTURE WORLD 639 National Get-Together Being Held Nixon-Nirdlinger Theatre Every Week in Baltimore Is Rebuilt Exhibitors used to depend on infrequent meetings of their various organizations for a chance to swap stories, gather the gossip of the trade, meet old friends or learn where these were "hanging out." Now these exhibitors hold a weekly get-together, where they can all keep in touch with one another's activities, learn about old friends and their doings, and fraternize with their fellows to foster the human side of the exhibiting game. Want to sit in on these get-togethers?. It's easy. All it costs you is the time it takes to rea>d Moving Picture World's newsy, breezy "Regrional News and Gossip" Department. Indiana Business in Toledo Shows Increase, Reports Brailey Nixon's Victoria Theatre, 415 to be operated by the MetroEast Baltimore street, Baltimore, politan Theatre Company, of has been entirely rebuilt and re which Dr. F. W. Schanze is decorated after the plans of J. president, that they are now rentLowther Forrest, architect, and ing the store, office and floor space reopened to the public under the in other sections of the building, management of A. M. Seligman, who formerly had charge of the playhouse. This theatre was badly damaged by fire about six months ago and has been closed since that time to allow for reconstruction. It is operated by the Nixon-Nirdlinger interests and the Stanley Company of America, who also control Ford's Theatre in Baltimore, under the management of Harry A. Henkel. Fred G. Nixon-Nirdlinger and Jules Mastbaum were present at the re. opening. Ed A. Lake, who has been associated with the Marcus Loew Theatrical Interests for eight years, has succeeded Robert Wayne as manager of Loew's The Sunday situation at Wabash, Ind., which has been more or less of a one-sided quarrel for the last nine months between Wabash ministers and William and Perry Dickson, proprietors of the Eagle Theatre, has developed intcv a real issue with the apparent organization of proponents of the Sunday shows, as a result of the arrest and jailing on Sunday, November 26, of the Dicksori brothers. After the Dicksons had been arrested, the sheriff announced that he could not accept bail and would confine the two theatre men in the jail until Monday. Attorneys and friends of the Dicksons then filed That business conditions in the write a criticism of the show, jicture houses in Toledo and this The best criticism of the show re :erritory are rapidly improving and ceived during December will win Hippodrome Theatre, Baltimore :hat the present winter will show all $25 for writing it. Second prize, Mr Lake comes direct from Lon Jie leading houses making good $15; third prize, $5; and fourth, don, Canada. He managed three ^ n^.p^, .„rnn<; s,nt ;,nd hnnri<! ot >rofits was the statement made this fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth of the Loew theatres in Brooklyn a naDeas corpus suit and bonds ot vppk hv On Rrailpv nwnpr nf the nrize $1 \i uic i^ucw iiicdu ci iii orooKiyn, ^jgo then were filed for the prts veeK Dy ura tsraiiey, owner ot tne prize, »i. N. Y., for some tmie. Mr. Wayne onpr.;' rplpa<;p Follnwincr tbpir tp Prmcess Theatre and dean of Toledo has become associated with the o"ers release l^ollowmg their re :xhibitors. Motion picture owners in the small Marshall Players af th^N^^ l^"' ^^e D.cksons announced Mr. Brailey states that since towns in this territory intend to open Lyceum Theatre BaW^^^^^^^^ SunV eveninT By 7:30 o'clock the theatre was Dctober 1, for the first time since up a fight on the Sunday closing ;he war closed, he has been able to laws. Lakewood, Findlay, Bryan (ee profits coming in. and several other cities will open "I believe we have passed the their shows on Sundays and are ;risis and from now on will see confident they will win out in the letter business," he said. I have fight. made a little money on every picture ihown during October and good Harry O. Thomas and Frank G. money on all pictures in November, Nafus, both from Toledo, this week sspecially the week I played 'Rich took over the Rivoli Theatre at DeMen's Wives.' I believe we have fiance, Ohio, following the cornmade the turning point and from pletion of a deal with Harold Wendt, now on I can see nothing but good who has operated the house for the Guy L. Wonders, manager of packed. The sheriff and his depu the Rivoli Theatre, Baltimore, ties arrived a short time later and who is ever on the alert to give rearrested the Dicksons, who were his patrons the best in pictures then taken back to the jail. Pro and music in his delightful the ceedings similar to the ones taking atre, arranged with Victor Her place in the afternoon followed. bert, renowed composer of musi cal comedies, to come to Balti Two affidavits were filed Satur more during the week of Decern day in the Morgan Circuit Court ber 4 and conduct the orchestra at Martinsville against Frank J. at the Rivoli. results ahead." Mr. Brailey is the champion duck hunter in Toledo. He says the hooting this year has been the best in years and that over 7,000 wild lucks have been brought down on past several months. Thomas has been connected with several Toledo theatres, but this is Nafus' first venture in the business. The Rivoli recently has been man J T I J ing vvith a film bookinj Uie shootmg grounds near Toledo riL ,„i i Mr -n u lu:. Cleveland. Wendt soon will be Charles E. Whitehurst, president of the Whitehurst Theatrical Interests, brought back those two excellent singers, Justin Lawrie aged' by'MVs. Wendt, in^thTabsence Fernando Guarneri, to sing at of her husband, who has been work t^e Century during the weeks of company in November 27 and December 4. this season. Manager Fageley, of the Rivoli, made a great hit with his clientele |the past week when he booked iBetty BIythe for personal appearance. She appeared for three days and was given a grand ovation at each performance. transfered to the New York office of the booking agency, and will be joined by Mrs. Wendt. So near completion is the Metropolitan Theatre, North avenue at Pennsylvania, which is Rembusch, of Shelbyville, owner of the Grace Theatre at Martinsville, and his manager, Frank Jewell, charging them with violating the Sabbath by operating the theatre on November 12 and November 19. Affidavits against Mr. Rembusch and Mr. Jewell were first filed in the court of Mayor E. L. Avery. When the cases were called a change of venue was asked. The filing of affidavits in the Circuit Court followed. Manager Gerstle, of the Valentine, put on a special screening of "When Knighthood Was in Flower" one Inight last week at midnight for the 'convenience of the theatrical folks in the city. Eddie Zorn, of the Temple Theatre, is pulling off a cute stunt I with the Toledo News-Bee. Each {night a child's picture appears in I the News-Bee. All the child has I to do is to cut out the picture, I take it to the News-Bee, identify j herself as the photo shown and I receive a ticket to the Temple, ' entitling her to take her family, not exceeding six persons, to the Temple any day of the week. She also has an opportunity to Where All the Adjectives Originated WE should have acknowledged long before this the receipt of several oldtime posters and clippings from ancient negatives sent us by John P. Dibble, of the Park Theatre, Branford, Conn. They are interesting and it is hard luck that we haven't the space to devote to reproductions of them. Perhaps later on we can show the film clippings and see how many exhibitors recognize them. Particularly interesting of all the posters is one that Mr. Dibble used in Putnam, Conn., in 1904. This reads, in part, as follows: "7th annual tour! See the new colored moving pictures. 100 new novelties. We would mention The Haunted Inn — where no man rests. The most spectacular moving picture ever made, a laughing success, the original production just imported from Paris. See the great Baltimore Fire Scene. The conflagration at its height — most sensational moving picture ever made — actually taken at the fire. (That makes two 'most spectaculars' on one program. — Ed.) See the realistic Japan & Russia War Scenes. The latest on land and sea. The great naval battle. See the wonderful electrical illusion, the mystic flame, introducing The Only Melies, the prince of French magicians. An exhibition of the most marvelous moving pictures in the world, some of which are fully One Thousand Feet each in length, others Beautifully Colored, marvels of art and accuracy; produced on a scale of magnitude never before attempted." The poster goes on to relate that "over 40,000 tickets have been sold in Utica during the past six years for Dibble's moving pictures, 35,000 >n Schenectady, 33,000 in Amsterdam, 30,000 in Poughkeepsie, 30,000 in Rome, 50,000 in Hartford." Mr. Dibble also advertised then a special attraction, "The World's Fair at St. Louis." Oh, boy! Now we know where the superlatives in present-day advertising came from. — S. 5.