Moving Picture World (Aug 1916)

August 5, 1916 THE MOVING PICTURE WORLD 971 Trade News of the Week ■ MM Mil . . " ' ■ :..■,■ " ■...:■. . GATHERED BY OUR OWN CORRESPONDENTS St Louis at the Chicago Convention Giebler Crosses the Mississippi to Look Over the Big Show and Lets Us In on Some of the Bunch With Whom He Meets Up— Casual Thoughts on NearPerforming Bears and Queer "Exhibits." By A. H. Giebler, 236 Vanol Building, St. Louis. ST. LOUIS was pretty well represented forted, and took the first rattler back at the Chicago Convention. We didn't home. get there until Friday, and we missed * * * some of the home-town folks who came and went early, the same as we missed seeing Carl Laemmle and Clai Young lead the grand march ; But we did see a few things. the ball. lile." lid, "th. Walker and she smiled ;e, you don't remember .t's just a convention-al We saw Barney Rosenthal of the Universal Exchange hobnobbing with Carl Laemmle and General Manager Hoffman at convention headquarters, and later at the exposition, shaking hands with many people. Chicago is Barney's home town, and he knows just lots of folks up there. We also saw him at the Hotel Sherman with a bag in his hand — with all the joy gone out of his voice and his famous smile faded to a woebegone look because he would have to travel back to St. Louis in an upper berth. Poor Barney! We saw Pearl White. "Pearl," we said, "you are from Missouri." "Greetings," replied Pearl, "but who accused me of that?" "Your biographers and the press agents," we answered. "Almost everything they say about me is wrong, ' she said with a doleful look. "When I got here they gave me some pictures of myself, with a little biography printed on it, that said I was born in A-n-t-i-o-c-h, but it's all wrong. I don't even known how to pronounce a town like that, let alone being born in it." It's a shame to take liberties with a girl's" native heath in that way, but Pearl is some girl, and she's from Missouri all Antioch can't prove any "Oh, yes, but I do," she responded. "You are a newspaper man from St. Louis, and the Moving Picture World correspondent, and you gave me a copy of your paper with a nice picture of me in it two weeks ago in New York " Now that varmed our that s for a littl gir: like Lillian when she meets so 11 riany people all th e time? We saw Hector Pasme zoglu, of the Con gress theater, o n Oliv stre t, and his party twice on Arg yle st eet, giving the Essana dios th e on« over, and later at the Coli earn. We ne •er realized before how Hector bles a well known a i. a we hac on to start the ru mor that he was John Barrymore, and gi ve hi aste of being mobbed for photograph . and "Pleas e sign your name this We s but i i didn thir on hei nd Mis irl Ig We saw E. W. Dustin, of the International Exchange, and he seemed to know everybody, and everybody seemed to know him. We'll back Dustin as one of the best known film men in the country. He's got a lot of this stuff they call personality in his system. It radiates arid makes people want In shake hands with him and slap I'ir.i on the back i sail him Eddie He told us about "Htm" and the whole bunch ' national managers taking a long drive in the country Sunday, ch | I KIT of K.Xel|al|c.e« I'.e I :•• ' ll.i.l a big time? Oh mj We saw an, I heard In Demko of the Shenandoah on South Broadwaj We saw hllXl at the exposition ha\ Ing B I I Urn.-, and we heard him the n< si da i n hen he got a iii. -mam saying th ha ii'i.'.i pi n on had ■ »ne Into ins alrdome after his place was ,i.,,.i r,,r the night, and walked off with two \\. offered th* optimistic suggestion thai triad they hadn't tak< n th< side « a ii-. i,ui Doi ' ■ i used to be com Tager Wolfberg, of the General Film Exchange, and he was absolutely one of the busiest men on the ground. This was due to the fact that he was the only General manager, outside of the Chicago continent, to attend the convention. He told us about taking a few hours off to go to a ball game, but as this was on Sunday, it was excusable, and besides, it was some game! We ran across Harry Beaumont, the Essanay director, who is a native sun. and is about as well acquainted in St. Louis as he is in St. Joseph, where he was brought up. and t We saw S. J. Baker, manager of the St. Louis Bluebird offices, and Mrs. Baker. Baker took us up to the exchange managers' meeting, presided over by General Manager Hoffman, and gave us a peek at the scene. Busy looking bunch. Cranberry merchants didn't have a thing on that gathering. We saw Fred Beecroft. of the Dramatic Mirror, and he almost wept when he told us about what the unkind Chicago newspapers said about his straw hat. It wasn't such an awful looking hat, either. Wc saw Joh theater, at Twe Gentner was the first home-t we did see. "This is a great show.' he said, and he was certainly getting both eyes full of it. We saw Fred A. Keller, manager of the Mutual offices. In fact, we lamped him at the same time we saw Gentner, but as John is the biggest, we saw him first. Keller was in hish spirits and taking things in with enthusiasm. We didn't see him but the once, and suppose he went back early to the grind. He's a bear for work anyway, Keller is. We saw Sam Lears. of the Lears Theater .Supply Company, and he seemed to be acquainted with everybody in Chicago, and people called him ••Sam' there just as they do here. We made the rounds of the Coliseum with him, and while he seemed to be interested in the stars and exhibits he didn't really get warmed up until we came to the Power and Motiograph exhibits, where there were several machines made up in blue and white enamel. Sam got all fussed up over these machines, and ordered the whole bunch shipped down to his place in St. Louis. We didn't see Joe Mogler, but we know he was there, because every time we would ask anybody about St Louis people they would say: "Oh say. did vou see Mogler? He's here." So we are sure Joe was there and feel safe in reporting the fact. We the Coliseum 1 bears, and we f is not good. hibited tO the crowds at I so many performing thai this sort of thing The multitude likes it. They admire and for thej saw and admired, but they also said things; they criticised. Your fan — fanatic, if you like — forms an exalted opinion of his screen favorites, The) represi .nance, Moalism, I,. Inn. II. likes to think the] arc not like other folks We aii talk of realism, but we don'i really want it Th. world is full of stories, cotn ■ • i. in t hey are all sordid We read ami no to the pla i i a nd I i nd w .■ naturally Imbue 1 1 with tl, • and wh.ti the hobnob with the hoi pollol they ! I hen .hum thl Idealism, is dispelled The pla pie, but the) a i a human. an. i thi ire not pli seed wi..,, thej find it out, if all tl we,,, kepi awaj from the public they W 8 ili'l get to nas. of the Lafayette, however, and Harr) Strickland, road man for the General exchange. We saw Mr and Mrs General Public come up t,, the doors of the Coliseum i>v hundreds and plank down their Bft] cuts, and we couldn't help wondering "where ■ ..it." if a little slang be allowed, inside the building then w.. little to interest the man from the street, apart star that would sp tw inkle at a great dial • terval -•■ t out it Mi ind Mr G P by spending alx aft. i • if the! i as many dollars, could I • at as man) ol thi atai aa had chosen the same tun. t,. sppeai aa they bad. it the police allow e, I theni to net within aeelna dli I