Moving Picture World (Jul - Aug 1918)

July 20, 1918 THE MOVING PICTURE WORLD 457 script for the Jewel Comedy, while Arthur Hotaling directed the picture. The cast is a notable one, the following players enacting the principal roles: Ray Hartford, as "The Kaiser, Little Willie A'Mighty"; Jack Stewart, as "The Clown Quince"; Marvin Loback as "Von Hindenbug"; Walter Bytell, as "Von Turpentine"; Richard Pennell as "Chancellor Von Bethmann-Bowlegs"; Earl Lynn, as the "Official Palace Cop"; Hughie Mack, as the "Buxom Village Baker"; Bartine Burkette, as his daughter; Monte Banks, as the Baker's Assistant, and Bert Roach, as the "German Germ." "The Geezer of Berlin" is the second short subject to find a place on the list of the Jewel releases. The first was "The Sinking of the Lusitania." Affiliated Extends Scope to Include all Exhibttors THAT the cooperative booking plan of the Affiliated Distributors Corporation is to be representative was made plain last week, according to an official of the concern, when the executives of that organization arranged to extend the scope of the movement so that it could include every exhibitor desirous of associating with it. "Originally it was intended to limit the benefits accruing from co-operative booking to the number of exhibitors necessary to complete a quota of 2,500 days on each picture for the country," said this official. "This quota was to be divided among twenty-five exhibitors booking corporations, each of which were to guarantee, by a trust fund, an average of one hundred days a picture. "Exhibitors guaranteeing these trust funds were to have participated exclusively in the low rentals effected and the excess profits derived. Exhibitors not members of the booking associations allied with the Affiliated were to pay the regular rentals. "The manner in which exhibitors all over the country have rallied to the Affiliated, however, has caused its sponsors to let down the bars to some extent. With the quota for the entire country now practically completed, after only two months' organization work, it has become patent that any restrictions as to the scope of the Affiliated plan would be unfair to the many exhibitors who have been dilatory in taking advantage of it, and would nullify the purpose of its organizers to make the co-operative movement representative of all exhibitors. "Accordingly, the directors of the Affiliated at their recent meeting approved a form of participating certificates which will enable exhibitors who have not joined their territorial booking corporations to gain the same low rentals enjoyed by the original subscribers to the units' trust fund. "Whether exhibitors holding these participating certificates will be extended a share in the excess profits of the booking corporation is a matter which has been left to each unit to decide as it sees fit. "It is expected that this expansion of the Affiliated will give it a booking strength greatly in excess of the usual number of days for which the average picture is booked. This, naturally, will further lower prices and encourage increased quality of production, as the producer shares with the exhibitors in excess profits." BE SURE and visit the home of the ATLAS KIDDIES at the ATLAS STUDIOS NEWTON HIGHLANDS MASS. "Waifs" a Summer Feature. "Waifs," which will be released by Pathe on the program of August 4, should prove an ideal summer attraction, for Gladys Hulette and Creighton Hale have a very smart vehicle in this play. Hale has a very likable role in that he is a poor newspaper reporter who throws his protection over the runaway daughter of a wealthy man and quite without knowing her circumstances falls in love with her. Watch for Early Comedy Announcement For the fullest and latest news of the motinjr picture industry in Great Britain and Europe — for authoritative articles by leading British technical men — for brilliant and strictly impartial criticisms of all films, read THE BIOSCOPE The Leading British Trade Journal with aa International Circulation 85 Shaftesbury Avenue, London, W. Specimen on Application p GOLD i FIBRE WAAB I SSA \ELLS t FIBRE 'IMPLEX? SCREENS MACHINES S SUPPLIES 1327 VINE ST. PHILADELPHIA Picture Theaters Projected. I < oik timed from pajce 4Mi.) BLUE EARTH, MINN.— E. D. Evans has purchased Converse theater, and will reopen it shortly. DEER RIVER, MINN.— Bentz & Gumm, owners of Grant theater at Grand Rapids, have purchased Lyceum theater, and will devote it to moving pictures. MORRIS, MINN.— S. P. Kennedy has resigned as manager Strand theater. WINONA, MINN. — Theater is to be built at Broadway and High Forest streets by H. A. Rolbiecki. LEXINGTON, MISS. — Earl M. Hooke will remodel building for moving picture theater, 40 by 71 feet; two-story frame; composition roof; wood floors; stove heating; city electric lighting; concrete sidewalks; work started. KANSAS CITY, MO. — H. A. Drake, 315 Reliance building, is preparing plans for six-story moving picture theater, 97 by 127 feet, with seating capacity for 2,000 persons, and costing $500,000. HYANNIS, NEB. — Mr. Mocroft will establish moving picture show here. CLAY CENTER, NEB.— Dixie theater has been taken over by G. Summer. GOTHENBURG, NEB. — Baldwin & De Woody, of Denver, have purchased interest of G. Burke in Sun theater. HASTINGS, NEB. — Wonderland theater has been leased by Mrs. J. Walden. HOSKINS, NEB.— E. Puis will establish moving picture theater in opera house. OMAHA, NEB. — A. H. Blank plans to remodel American theater. BROOKLYN, N. Y. — Beverly Amusement Co., 220 Broadway, New York, has plans by C. M. Straub, 147 Fourth avenue, New York, for two-story moving picture and store building, 54x70 feet, to cost $50,000. BROOKLYN, N. Y.— Max Spitzer, 46 Wooster street, New York, has plans by C. M. Straub, 147 Fourth avenue, New York, for one-story theater, 80x113 feet, to cost $40,000. BROOKLYN, N. Y.— Theater costing $100,000 is being erected on site of old Payton's theater, Lee avenue and Taylor street, by M. Solomon & Sons. BROOKLYN, N. Y.— Dean Theater Company has plans by M. A. Cantor for $35,000 theater at 25th street and Flatbush avenue. NEW YORK, N. Y.— H. J. Krapp, 116 E. 16th street, is preparing plans for twostory theater and store building at 160th street and Fort Washington avenue, to cost $100,000. WASHINGTON HEIGHTS, N. Y. — William M. McElfatstick has completed plans for theater and store building which B. F. Keith's Theater Corporation will erect at cost of $400,000. WAHPETON, N. D. — W. L. Brown, manager and lessee of opera house, has taken over Braun theater. CLEVELAND, O. — Fairland Theater Company has incorporated with $20,000 capital. URBANA, O. — William Clifford, care Robert C. Gotwald, Springfield, O., plans to erect moving picture theater, 112 by SO feet, to cost $20,000. EXETER, PA. — Joseph Walsh plans to remodel one-story moving picture theater, 22x80 feet, to cost $2,000. PHILADELPHIA, PA. — Mark W. Jones has taken over moving picture theater at southwest corner 53rd and Lansdowne avenue from Samuel Segall, subject to mortgage of $15,500. Property is on lot 172.11 by 72.3 by 51.3 feet, and is assessed at $25,000. POTTSTOWN, PA. — Chestnut Street theater will be remodeled and conducted in future under management of William H. Engel and J. William Schaeffer.