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MOVING PICTURE WORLD
January 2, 1926
THE SCRIPT CALLS FOR THE "CAUGHT IN THE TO ILS OF JUSTICE" SEQUENCE. HOW WOULD YOU
TREAT IT?
How to cUndnate common and tiresome routine in produclion' The /ao panels above sho7u how Hrolf IVisby gets something ORIGINAL out of the old criminal court procedure. The top panel shotvs the entrance to the police court. The criminal, or supposed criminal, is admitted through the central door. 7 he five doors than fade out and you see in their place the five fingers of the hand, as suggested in the lozvr panel. On the lips of the fingers then appear the marks of the police thumbprint, light, black or crimson as the situation demands, showing the degree of innocence or guilt, actual or implied. In place of the timeworn criminal court procedure Mr. IVisby has devised a treatment economical as to production and generous in dramatic value. This is characteristic of his entire production plan.
Wishy Plan
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to conform to a preconceived 'standard of production,' and as each and every picture must stand on its own feet as a valid expression of a specific technical standard exclusively adapted to it and instantly destroyed when the picture is finished, we shall always be .far in advance of those who may desire a sleigh ride. Yes, the chances are that a certain proportion of current production may become obsolete if the Wisby plan breaks into the big money."
GEORGE E. BRADLEY RESIGNS
George E. Bradley, motion picture editor of the New York Morning Telegraph, has resigned. He will join the scenario department of First National Pictures Corporation.
Missouri Exhibitor Buys Newspaper; Why Not You?
HENRY H.ALLWAY, who owns picture houses in St. John's Station and Florissant, Mo., purchased the Gem Overland-St. Jolin's Record, issued weekly at St. John's Station, to see that his houses got proper publicity in the news column.
In the issue of December 3 a seven-column banner announced : "This edition is dedicated to Mary Carr, Priscilla Bonner and Kenneth Harlan, the stars in 'Drusilla With a Million,' and to Mr. Tom McKean, the St. Louis manager for F. B. O., who made it possible for us to get this Super-Special direct from the New St. Louis Theatre."
Moral : If the editor doesn't give you an even break get a newspaper of your own.
Auburn, N. Y., Theatre Is Sold for $100,000
FitzerAuburn, Inc., a corporation composed of Ben, Max and Mrs. Rae Fitzer of Syracuse and Charles D. Blessing and Nicholas Drake of Auburn, N. Y., have purchased the Strand Theatre Building in Water street. Auburn, for $100,000. The building was sold by Norman Loeb of New York City through Auburn realtors. The late Edwin Burtis built the Strand some twenty years ago and Raymond Hitchcock, the comedian, opened it. The house was known at that time and for many years afterward as the Auditorium.
G. E. DePauw, who has been managing the Grand and Universal Theatres in Auburn for the past year, has been appointed manager for the new Schine Capital Theatre in Newark, N. Y. The Capital has been built at a cost of $200,000.