Moving Picture World (Jul - Aug 1918)

428 THE MOVING PICTURE WORLD July 20, 1918 Features Secured Chautauqua's Patronage Manager Scates of Paramount Theater at Okanogan, Wash., Obtains Business of Traveling Attraction by Presenting Big Productions. By S. J. Anderson, East Seattle. Wash. SEATTLE. — A Chautauqua which has traveled all through the northern part of the state this month has played havoc' with the motion picture business nearly everywhere that it has stopped, but C. P. Scates, manager of the Paramount theater in Okanogan, did not choose to let it hurt his business. He decided to make it help him. instead. First he persuaded the town authorities, with whom he is quite influential, to have the traveling attraction located next to his theater, then he booked two big productions for that week, viz.: "The Auction Block" and "For the Freedom of the World." When the chautauqua opened with an admission charge of 75 cents the farmers coming in town to attend it with their families saw the alluring front of the Paramount theater next door with 25admiBBion simi up. and like the thrifty men they are they took their famto the place that would cost them least. The result was that Mr. 5 a bigger business than the chautauqua, and much bigger than his usual record. Heavy Bookings on Anti-Vice Film. .Miss Grace Marbry Sanderson, prominent in San Pi >nd author of "The Finger of .Just tie last week and established an exChange at 2016 Third avenue. Miss Banin Will make this her headquarters until she has North territory. If her first two days are to be tak will not remain ions, foi In that time she has booked Seattle, Portlai iling ham and .\i Bhe is to cov< thor oughly ami la plannli main two or three monl be M is ■ full charge of the distribution "f the picture on the Pi ' fin ished a successful Beaaon with it in ■ fornla, w b not onlj attended to LiBtribution, but alao appeared with the picture throughout the towns of the state Her main ofl Ban Frail' Sherry Exchange for Seattle. William Alexandi tive for the Wm. Sh.ii> system Of exchanges, is in Seattle !■• open -i bl He has taken temporarj qua with the L. J. Bchlaifer Attractions Company, at 2022 Third avenue I. a former Seattle general i '•• have charge of the new ofli Film Employes Join Colors. Seattle film employes call to the e.dors BO fast that i< lOOll if the entire office force of all the changes would soon consist of girls only. Everv week at least one or two I dded to the list, but this week there nore than usual, and the list furnishes a hint that there may be difficulty even in keeping the girls. The b given by the appearance ..f M Hervan's name on the list of this w volunteers for service. Miss ll.rvin, who is on. of the stenographers in the Trioange, has passed i ■ mations and takes a position next with the branch of the aviation service at the University of Washington. The other names on this week's list are C. M. Kichardson, booker at the Seattle Mutual Office, who has been drafted and assigned to Camp Lewis; C. J. Featherstone, Artpraft-Paramount booker, who has been kssigned to the U. S. Mechanics' Training il in Oakland, Cal.. and R. T. Stone. Ai tcraft -Paramount shipper, who has joined the merchant marine. On account of the loss of the last two men to the Artcraft-Paramount office there has been a rearrangement of the personnel in several departments of that office. Keith Beckwith has taken Mr. Featherstone's place as booker and T. L. Thurston, who acted as booker during a short time when Mr. Featherstone was away, is now office manager. H. L. Kenyon has succeeded Mr. Stone. The place of assistant to the manager of publicity — A. J. Kennedy — which was vacated the middle of the month by the marriage of Miss Virginia Keltuer to Jack Rants, of the Dream and Kialto theaters, Bremerton, is being filled by Miss Dorothy Maxwell. "War's Women" Doing Big Business. Seattle, Wash. — That an arbitrary removal of a film by a city ofncia.1 cannot permanently kill a picture is being shown in Seattle this week by the good business being done at the Strand with "War's Women." It will possiblv ii< inhered by World readers of two that this film had been passed by the censors and had been playing for two or three days, when Mayor H. C. Gill, accompanied by the chief of police, came down to the theater and confiscated the film right In the middle of the show. It Is now thought that this was a wholly politic. 1 move of the mayor. He stated that certain cltlsens had reported the film to him as able. These "citizens." it is believed, were Germans, and as the 1 to run for another term of he did not n iffend the large German population of the city by allsuch an anti-German picture to continue tie th< iter. taking the matti mrt Miss mo Donnelly, who was handling the picture In this t.rrit 01 It he print: but Manager W. li. Bmytbe did not obtain pei ontinue the the court ruling that the censors I \ Isoi y b... ii d for the When Mi ■ led in this I \ it, a ml M r Hanson beanie ms Donnelly took the film to him and was assured that any ■ r might show it nnmoli ste.i i the authorltlei ■ i thai the] were anxious for it to appear, and il was ! n bj -i ' and Vim li who now operate that in presenting "Wti ■ Women." the manhave in. a by l >-.i \ i n lt out tin dream pari and addin 111 is at the end. The of these makes the statement that this la the waj German] wages war. The "This IS the wa\ we are going i them." and pictures Of our soldiers Lllors In training are thrown on the then, "These boys of ours are ready to give their liv. s to Stop such barbs risiu. What an y,,u giving?" This is followed appeal to bu> War Savings stamps , . .1 Libert] Bonds and to support thi ' "Over the Top" Still Draws. ■ ii,. Top," ths patriotic film mule from Arthur Guy Bmpey'a book, that the people are not tired of lie pictures by the way it is drawing business to 1 idn urn this I'll Sunday the crowd waited for 20 mln n the hot sun to get into tic pheum. and the warm weather lias not been keeping them away for th. rest of the week. Exchange Personals. I". C. Quimby, business manager of l'athe EX< Inc., left Seattle this after several weeks' visit. Before going ■gaged L. O. Bukan as manager of the Seattle exchange to take the place of W. W. Kofeldt, whi ed to take 'he management of a theater in Port C. B. Kills, traveling auditor f.o eral, is spending some time at the Seattle office, having arrived this week. A. W. Eden, manager of the Seattle Fox office, is back from the conference of Fox managers in New York. C. H. Code and E. R. Hudson, salesmen out of the Seattle Goldwyn office, are in the city holding a conference with Manager C. F. Hill and discussing the new policies for the coming season. George P. Endert has resigned as sales manager of the Seattle Artcraft-Paramount office to become manager of the .--tattle Universal office, succeeding John R Meldrum, who resigned last week. H. G. Rosebaum and Guy Navarre, manager and assistant manager, respectively', of the Seattle Artcraft-Paramount office, returned this week from San Francisco, where they attended a conference of western managers. Notes on Washington Theaters. Messrs. Yamada and Kaili. former owners of the Bison, Seattle, have sold that house and are building a new theater in the same neighborhood which will be known as the Oriental The building is up-to-date and Is to have two Powei machines and a Minusa Cold Fibre screen. T. S. Hume has leased the vmerlcan theater. Arlington, Wash . from I' C. Hausofus. and will open it on July 1. i: li Btuller has ., new tin. iter at Glendale. T. L. Morgan, who was formerlj con« .1 with the Orpheum theaters in the east, has arrived in Seattle to take charge of the theater lighting department at the II. a Johnson Company Sup* ply store. Ray R Kelsall, mini . i of announces that his company is now . i i in \\ • si .-in Elect in i Com pany's Mazda and | The II V Johnson Co. makes a specialty of Power's machines. Minusa screens, and is tin western representative of tin Wisconsin Chan Company. Exhibitor Personals. .i .; von Herberg has returned from a bUSim ss trip to New i i,. Stannard of th. Wenatchei Gem theaters, Wenatchee, is in Seattle th is v , i in I he northwest tiapsl ting contest, in which he is holding a very high rank so fa i MORE DALLAS TRADE NOTES. ir Corn, of the Palace theater. I'arm.T s\ ille. was in town last w..k to book "Pershing's Cruaai Kimball, of Mi-Kinney, and .1 W. Bellinger, of the Alvarado th. Alvarado, were also visitors along film row. J. L. M. Kinney, one of the best known salesmen in Texas, has Joined the First Nat tonal »al< i •■• Some exhibitors who have been spend, I. w days in I >allas recent ! • I l.'nnls; A. C. Buchanan, Thurber theater, Thurber; B. M. Lewis, li Palaci . Tj ler; F. i». Fineburg, N'.-w theater, i, aw ion, Okla.; B, J. i. ampkin, < nville; Charbs PolB t li.at.-r, McKinney ; O. Cill, :. i, link. i. Okla.; William Bat Klng theater. Mnim.Hi • Talmadge in "The Shuttle,'' [i cl picture, drew a big following to i ],. Qui .a ih. a i er during I part Of the first week in July. Mai I ikford followed in Artcraft's "How Could You, Jean?" with the resultant crowded houses. At Hulsey's Old Mill, -lack Piokford In "Sandy" was followed bj Douglas Fairbanks in "Say Young Fellow." At Nevtll's Washington, Mary MacLaren In "The Models I'onfesslon" was the feature During the last week In June, Bva Tanguay in "The Wild Girl" was featured ;,t the ( lid Mill, while at t he i.iii. en. Fannie ! in "The Yellow '1'ickef proved a most popular attraction At the HIppO "Jacli ami the Beanstalk" ran ; h rough tin w ■ ■ i