The Moving picture world (November 1925-December 1925)

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December 5, 1925 MOVING PICTURE WORLD 477 Three Luhliner-Trinz Houses Lou KRAMER, of Lubliner & Trinz, reports three new houses for early opening. The Grove Theatre at 76tli and Cottage Grove, seating 2,000, is expected to be ready by the end of the year. The Belmont Theatre at Lincoln and Belmont avenue, seating 3,600, will be a de luxe house, and is scheduled for opening in February, 1926. The Tower Theatre on 63rd street, seating 3,800, making it one of the largest houses on the South Side, is expected to be ready for a March opening. At the present time there are twenty-one houses open under the Lubliner & Trinz direct management, including the new Harding and State Theatres opened during the past six weeks. C. C. I*yl<', well known theatre owner of ChniniKil^ii, III., nnd the liend of the Pyle cireuit, is down in Florida looking over his real est.-ite holdings. Jii.st now he is getting a lot of piiblicit)' over his contract with Red Grange, the famous football star, to handle hi.s professional affairs after he leaves Illinois University. Burt B. Forbes, Howard Neumiller and Millard H. Cutler have organized the Premier Company, with a capital of $25,000 to create and promote presentations and other attractions. Frank Gazzola and Thomas Hanks, managers of the Studebaker Theatre, have returned from an eight-day trip to French Lick Springs The Ascher circuit is promoting a school for managers and Lewis Newhafer, general manager, says they will need them, as they have seven houses going up and others will be added from time to time. H. L. McGee is remodeling the Echo at Des Plains, 111., and will increase his capacity by 300 and fix the house up for a banner winter business. B. Vought is building a new 900-seat movie house at Paris, III., and expects to open the house during the holidays. A contest will be held to select a name for the new theatre. Mr. Vought is also interested in the Polo Theatre at Polo, 111., and other houses In that part of the state. W. L. Bracht, manager of the Lester Norris circuit of theatres at West Chicago and St. Charles, reports the new theatres being erected by Mr. Norris will be ready early in 1926. The new Howard Street Theatre of Balaban GOT HIS BUCK— J. F. White, Jr., Manager of the Capitol Theatre, Asheboro, N. C, scored on the first day of his hunting trip. & Katz will represent an investment of $2,500,000. A bond issue for half that amount lias been underwritten for the builders by the George M. Porman Company. The theatre interests are interested in the l>ill introduced by Alderman W. R. O'Toole of the city for the repeal of the daylight snving.s in this city. Dick Emig has been made manager of the Windsor of Lubliner & Trinz. Quite a delegation of out-of-town exhibitors were callers at the American Theatre Circuit offices last week. Among them were B. P. Jordan of the Orpheum, Ottawa; J. C. Miller of the Princess, Woodstock; Julius Lamm of the Elite, Waukegan; W. L. Bracht of the Idle Hour, St. Charles; Frank Boget of the .\merican. Sandwich; Charles Tseta of the Kozy, Marseilles. M. K. Cobb, E. N. Ellis and L. F. Weiss have organized the Premier Company, with oflices at 35 South Dearborn, to supply complete musical entertainment for theatres in this territory. Iowa lExhihitoY Turns Reins Over to Son FRANK SMITH, who owned the Cozy Theatre at Carson, la., has turned the business over to his son, Harold. Mr. Smith was recently appointed postmaster at Carson and is giving his attention to the duties of that office instead of pictures. Mrs. R. C. IngersoU has sold the Orpheum at Oelwein, la. Bergman Myers have bought the Liberty at Clarence, la., from Liercke Bros. Hal Kelley has sold the Opera House at Corning, la., to W. Mansfield. J. W. Andersen has sold the Lyric at Walnut, la., to M. N. Wantz. M. T. Jones has sold the Palace at Exeria, la., to Clarence Lacey. Harvey E. Means has sold the Cozy at Sidney, la., to W. B. Craft. L. J. Wagner has bought the Garden at Twenty-fourth and Vinton streets, Omaha, of Victor Newton of Des Moines.' Allender & Jenkins opened a new theatre early in November at Vail, la. J. H. Eversole, Majestic Theatre, Avoca, la., was looking around in the exchange offices in Omaha recently. J. C. Laykin, Cosmo Theatre, Winner, S. D., was at the exchanges in Omaha recently selecting' some films. F. Hopley, new owner of the Lyric Theatre, Tekamah, Neb., was In Omaha among the exchanges and supply houses recently. Pittshurgh Theatre News Walter Silverberg, well-known Greenville exhibitor, paid Pittsburgh's Film Row a visit recently and reported depressing conditions in his town, where a scarlet fever epidemic prohibits persons under 18 years of age from attending theatres or any public gatherings. Other recent visitors included: Paul Thomas. Greensburg; Charles Feinler, Wheeling; J. George Schweitzer, Titusville; Sam Haimovitz, Bart Dattola and Adolph Fery, New Kensington, and Sam Blanco of the State Theatre, Clymer. Michigan Theatre News Charles M. Miles is receiving bids for a building on Adams avenue, Detroit, that will contain a theatre seating 3,000 and 168 apartment suites, the structure is to be sixteen stories high. George Sfaeth, owner of the Temple Theatre in Grand Rapids, who has been seriously ill for a month, is reported on the road to recovery. He will resume active management of his theatre again within a few weeks. to open Soon Carrol Gridley is planning the erection of a movie theatre at Libertyville, 111., that will cost in excess of $150,000. Plans are being made to start building at an early date. H. M. Rouda, who has been with the Ascher circuit for ten years, has been made managing director of the new Midwest Theatre which opened last week at 35th and Archer avenue. Harry F. Dunning, recently with Pantages circuit at Seattle, has been made assistant manager. Paul Sternberg is musical director, Ralph Emerson solo organist, and Roy C. MacMuUen director of presentations. New Indianapolis House The Greater Garrick, a neighborhood picture theatre at Illinois and Thirtieth streets, Indianapolis, was formally opened on Monday night, November 23, with "The Talker" and a Mack Sennett comedy. The opening was in the nature of a community celebration and was attended by tremendous crowds. The theatre, formerly the old Garrick, was bought in October by W. H. Griffin, who has been associated with the house for ten years. It has been made over in extensive and elaborate fashion and was artistically decorated with baskets of flowers and bankings of palms and ferns for the opening. CIIIC COLLEEN, Queen of the Screen, is indicating the way to the box office. And, no doubt, a many there are who will tread that road to see her in "We Moderns," which she has made for First National.