Moving Picture World (Sep 1916)

September 16, 1916 rill-: MOVING PICTURE WORLD nawa Park dei Ided to finish the outdooi amusement aeuson bj giving feature moving pit tures angtng the pro i ly. IN IOWA. An Exhibitor with Some Good Pep. Clear Lake, la The an Ml of C. E ■ .1 local exhibitor, tor operating his moving picture show on Sundaj started something. Carragher regarded ins business as ha> is muoh right to staj open as others, and Bled Informations with the courts against forty other concerns which he . ed \ lolated the law i u > t as mu< b as he did. The llsl Included drug confectioners, garn I turant kei and even the band which had been hired Ive Sunday concerts. Sabbath Fine in Knoxville. Knoxvllle, la s. 1. Elder, an exhibltoi here, was fined $10 and costs In a Justice's court for keeping his moving picture theopen on Sunday. Operators' Local 355 Elects. Sioux City, la. C. a. Barr has been elected president of Moving Picture Operators' Local No. S55. other officers chosen were Clair Hllgers, vice president; Robert Marksburg, business agent; Carl Gilbert, secretary-treasurer; E. Sternberg, assistant secretary-treasurer; .Fred HurU, int-at-arms. Buck Grove. la. — Hemphill & Hamer have purchased motion picture equipment and will operate a moving picture show here. What Omaha's "Movie Inn" Looks Like. Omaha, Neb. — "Fourth floor! lawn mowers, sport shirts, kitchen ware, 'Screen Club.' " This may be the direction of elevator boys to patrons of the Brandeis' stores in Omaha. Neb., which has just opened a cozy little dining room to be known as the "Movie Inn." The Screen Club of Omaha already has made the place its headquarters. The idea originated with R. C. Phelps, who is manager and proprietor of the blue room, green room. Pompeian room, candy store and soda counter in the same store. Iii working out his plan he had the aid of the World, Mutual and Fox and other film corporations, with the result that the walls are covered with pictures of the leading photoplayers. The Inn promises to be a popular retreat for the women patrons of the theaters. Manager Phelps plans to have a series of afternoon teas, as soon as colder weather begins. In recognition of his efforts to help the business of the exhibitors in the city the Screen Club decided to make it the future meeting place for the association. St. Louis Fall Openings Begin Picture Lovers Sec Prospect! Good for Fine Winter Crop oi Pilaw— World Hep resentativc Find*. Downtown Thcaui ^ Reopening witli Crowds Coming Back — Prosperity Stems a Pretty Sure Thing. Bj \ M Qh i.i.i . 186 \ an.. I Building, 81 Louli Mo ST I. or is. Mil st Itwlxl a mi bel wei now. for the lasl w eek i he w cool thai people in the look lot .1 i" the K londj ke, a nd oi hei d it e stuff, and about hair the time the nice llti le creeps feeling t ha! si.nu out to thrill at the lue. moment of the plaj chs Into a chill. Th< riches of the aii ai i mi us are ornamented u it h more ■ lead leaves than pa i re .n s, and i" quote the poet of Film Row, whose name will be sent for a properlj addressed and envelope : "The melancholj daj b The husky door-man cried. ■■ "I'ain't hot enou Ami too blamed hot inside." But it's an ill wind that blows nobody patrons, ami the people with roofs their places are rubbing their hands in joy and sloshing paint and soap suds all over the pi ice in their preparations for the fall opening. We took a trip down town and found things humming away in great shape, and signs out announcing openings tor the first of September at theaters that have been closed all summer. Strand's Autumn Opening. The Columbia, home of Orpheum vaudeville, which took care of the Strand audiences during the hot weather while the strand was being regilded and repainted and treated to a new ten thousand dollar pipe organ, closed up on the 28th, and the Strand opened the next day and blocked the sidewalk up and down Sixth street all afternoon and evening with fts first-ofthe-season crowd. Triangle features and "Gloria's Romance" are on at the Strand, and the place looks very fine and brave with its beautiful interior decorations, and Charlie Vollmer, who showed us around, is as proud of the place as a girl with a new fall hat. Royal Opened Sunday. The Royal, under the management of .Mis. Rose Cornelius, is getting ready to open on Sunday, the 3rd of September, with Paramount features, and at the Lyric, the other downtown house controlled by the same management, which is scientifically cooled and ventilated, and did not close all summer, the effect of the cool weather is already being felt in the crowds that fill the lobby waiting for seats every night. Gem Under New Management. The Gem, a house of much history and proud record in the past, will reopen about the first of September under new manage ^]BBq m —T® -I G Hi J* — >m IT1 JR-rTal *• t op the > ippenhelmer a nd ' lai ■< i • D i . who 1 1 i 1 in, I i>. ..i it,,, buildln Not Ready Yet. Of illn phi in es and \ a ude\ i lie, Is m ill i not w it list.a nd Thei e a re i» > St. Ch Street thai .1 mi t in 1 It ...,,i w ay, dia ■ in each ot her, but no dou soon as the season is fully opened and 1 hinge gel to ■■ii open , hen doors. We hope bo, 1 01 n . id of "No closed Ii ou • town," which has 1 1 our boast heretofore. Mr. Exhibitor: — You will get more helpful information by carefully reading one trade paper weekly than by Mkimming over three or four. The MOVING PICTURE WORLD it the one paper you need. "Movie Inn," the Home of Omaha's Screen Club. Central's Good Business. The Central, at Sixth and Market, which has just closed a successful run with the revival of Mary Pickford In "Tess of the Storm Country," was filled to the doors with "The Folly of Sin," and Sweeney says things are picking up with good indications Of a line fall and winter business. A Buzz Around the Broadway. Around the corner on Broadway we found the Astor, buzzing along under its new manager, John Ajlgelich, and Charles Wagner, the assistant manager, who has been on the job steadily for nine years. This place has not been closed for a single day since its initial performance except once four years ago, when a fire necessitated closing for a month while it was rebuilt, and Mr. Wagner spoke very feelingly of the days when the program was one and a half reels, and contrasted that day with the nine and ten reels that form the show now. Newly Named Variety. Half a block farther on Is the erstwhile Dixie, which passed under the management of Fineschriber and Ansel] a short time ago. The new management has changed the name of the place to the Variety, and has added a fifteen hundred dollar mechanical orchestra to the house. l'.usiness is good at the Variety, and Mr. Ansel] reports handling thirteen hundred people on the Sunday just passed. Rainbow Prosperous. The Rainbow was found to be prosperous, as usual. George Angelich, a brother to John, who has just acquired the Astor, is the manager of the Rainbow, and he was entertaining a nice crowd with a Bio graph reissue showing Blanche Sweet in "A Temporary Truce." and Mary Fuller In "The Trail of Chance." The soda machine in the lobby of the Rainbow was ,.ut oi order, but it was too cold for soda anyway, so we were not disappointed, and moved on uii the street to the Famous. which is on the frontier of the downtown distl let. Doing Famously. Miss Tillie Schwartz presides at th. Famous and has managed to keep the plai e humming along call summer, but she talks very strongly of making garden on top of the house next season.