Moving Picture World (Aug 1916)

August 19, 1916 Thlli MOVING PICTURE WUKLU •it it i ito ; and vaudeville nned to open the latter part of August and for a while at over to photoplay. V.S a i as the upper floor of the building is available a lease will be taken up..,, it and it will be converted into a giving a house with a si ating ol 1,500. Two Houses for Rorer. Dixon. — Manager Rorer of the Family has signed a lease for the Dixon Opera house for the coming season ; will control both theaters. The ne house probably will use some theatric 600-Seat House for Rockford. Rockford.— Evald and Bert Johnsc will erect a moving picture theater < Fourteenth avenue, between Sixth at Seventh streets, it will be (1x80 feet ai will seat 600 persons. i,d . -us one for the have been quite tlon at the Queen each Saturday since their inauguration early in the sumwhich Miss Bessie Whitehead of the Hulsey theaters, of Dallas, is responsible. Saals Goes to Dallas Triangle. Houston. — William Saals. former booking clerk for the Houston office of the Consolidated Film and Supply Company, has returned to Dallas to take a position with the Triangle, and F. L. O'Leary, former manager of the Beacon theater, at Houston, has succeeded Mr. Saals in the Houston exchange. Barach Succeeds Logan Takes Over Dallas Office of World Film — Other News from Lone Star State. By A. B. Harrison. Box 389. Dallas. DALLAS, TEXAS.— Nat Barach, of Atlanta, a well known and popular film man throughout the South, has been appointed manager of the Dallas exchange of the Southern World Film Corporation to succeed R. H. Logan, who recently resigned. Mr. Barach has been in the film business for about three years and most of that time has been spent in the employ of the Southern World Film Corporation as traveling salesman, having traveled out of the offices at Pittsburg, Cleveland, Chicago, Kansas City, Dallas and New Orleans, and since the first of the year has been connected with the Atlanta office, from whence he came to Dallas. During 1915, Mr. Barach was connected with the Fox Film Corporation at Dallas, in the capacity of traveling salesman, and it goes without saying that he has many friends throughout the States as well as in Dallas ptfoper, who have given him a hea i t J welcome. .Mi Barach states it is his intention to lie the good policy already installed In the Dallas exchange as well as to keep the office force intact. He took charge of the office July 24. Joe Marientette in Dallas. Dallas. — Joe Marientette. general manager of the Southern World Film Corporation, with headquarters at New Orleans, ■ ouple of weeks recently with the Dallas exchange, looking after "the transBill Oldknow Looks Over Dallas. I 'alias. -William oldknow. general man' he Consolidate,! Kiln, and ''"" '■ ■'■ " ' :ol.,uai ters at Atlanta. spent the week of July t:> in I 'alias Lyric Hit by Fire. Van Alstyne. .The l.vric theater here i s. u lawis was t he o\\ ii, r I the heavj awning on the front ol the i.uii.i carrying the front Are wall with it. Dallas' Roseland Reopens. Dallas, ti,. Ro i land I heatei here. « hlch u a cloi ed Ime been i lened under the man.,:. dlen. Mothers Clubs Interested in Matinees. """ I ''• ildents oi thi Mr. Fitzpatric lighting plant was opened recently un:rship of E. J. Fitzpatrick. tiled a complete Christensen Goes on Road. — P. E. christensen, former assistant manager of the Houston omen of the Consolidated, has been placed on the road with "Where Are My Children." William Saals. formerly with the Triangle and Mutual companies in Dallas, has taken his post in Houston. Lyric at Sherman Closed for Repairs. Sherman. — The Lyric theater at Sherman, under the able management or Miss Bettie Fairchilds, has been closed for the summer season. The theater is be Nashville Has Week's Orgy of Unborn Stuff Censors, After Denouncing Picture as "Morbid, Indecent and Degrading," Cut Out Two Hundred Feet and Permit Its Showing— "Where Are My Children?" Passes Without Alteration, but With Insistence on Age Limit. By J. L. Roy, 1014 Stahlman Building, Nashville. NASHVILLE, Tenn. When the Strand theater opened on Monday morning with a live-reel abortion production made in New York (advertisement for which The Moving Picture World had refused), members of the Nashville board of censors were promptly on the scene, and after a review of the picture drew up and presented to the mayor a report in which it was stated the picture was "morbid, indecent and degrading." While admitting a powerful lesson was taught, the censors were of the opinion that this was not sufficient to justify its toleration, as expressed by them. On receipt of the report Mayor Ewing, upon whose request the investigation was undertaken, dispatched Chief of Police Alex Barthell to the Strand with orders to stop the presentation of the picture. The board of censors then spent the afternoon at the Strand and proceeded to slash up the film to such an extent that it was hardly possible to follow the thread of the story. Over two hundred feet of the offensive scenes were removed, after which the reels were patched up and a report was made to the mayor that the picture would be permitted to pass after its impromptu abbreviation. On Mondaj night a committee of twenty representative citizens were invited to View the production and render opinions as to the moral value of the play, and when a vote was taken it was found that the house was divided, with some women voting that the picture be allowed to continue. The chief of police then advised Manager Boy SheltOn that the picture n shown, providing that no under 17 allowed to en Mr. Bhelton placed the film b exhibition late in the afternoon and employed a band to ad\ el lis. I h. fact, with a crowd of boys carrying banners through Hie uptown streets. The pi, mo h( Id o\ ,-r for a solid week's run. which was un d itedlj dm to the amount of publicity it had received through the pn otherwise as a result "i the censorship lings. Pass "Where Are My Children?" Ille.— Immedlatelj aftei the board acted on the foregoing plcl in . i he ma jroi I Bued msi i u,t ions for i he hoard to examine "Vi her< w huh was I k.-d at the Princess for t he tollOV cordiiic.iv a -ops of the Mm was secured and ., private exhibition held at the Prln iio i„ nefll ..i thi committee ol Im Ited i Itlsena A full die ai '" the moral prln . Iplei Involved, aftei « hlch th< day before, allowed the picture to pass, without cutting out a single scene. The mly provision made was that no persr." under 18 years of age be permitted, which requirement was strictly adhered to by the management during the week's run of the nicture. operators Off War Path. Nashville. — The absence of striking operators about the streets with banners urging the people to stay out of certain theaters, following the walk-out of some months ago in Nashville, is quite noticeable, and to all appearances these men have given up their efforts to divert patronage to the houses which granted their demands. It will be remembered that the operators stepped down from their booths at 4 o'clock in the afternoon, leaving blank screens all over the city. Upon refusal of one string of Nashville houses to reinstate the strikers, certain of the men took turn-about in parading the downtown streets with large banners urging people to keep out of the theaters controlled by this company. It Is hoped harmony will prevail from now on, as outbreaks of this nature tend to injure the high prestige which the whole moving picture industry now enjoys. "The Evil Thereof" at Knoxville. KnOXVllle. "The Evil Thereof." the Famous release, recently haired by the Chattai gS hoard of women records at the ijueen theater. at which time no protest whatever was entered. The management issued a stringent oi.ler regarding children, and none was admitted under any circumstances while the picture was being shown. Sidelight Publicity. Nashville. \ novel mod, of publicltj was Introduced here When President Ton\ Sudekum of the Crescent Amusement Companv removed the sid.lmh' from ins auto and substituted two large glass plates, illuminated from behind, on winch were inscribed "S< Men Pi m, . SB The plates changed ai will, and « hen the • .'sit CSJ lies w ilh it a s,|cnt bid for patronage, Vendome Lobby Used for Posters. Nashville The lobbj ol the Vendome, Nashville's largest playhouse, Is being utilised for moving pletui a s.d> during the closed season This house. w iii, h i Bltuati d In the I i is at all times conspicuous with of fot thi omlng pi odui tloi