Motion Picture News (Jan - Mar 1914)

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62 THE MOTION PICTURE NEWS Make Your Lobby Display Attractive There is nothing more fascinating to the public than a bright brass frame to display your photos or posters. We make Lobby and Theatre Fixtures and Brass Rails of every description. Don't fail to visit our Showrooms Write for Catalog. The Newman Mfg. Co. 717 Sycamore St. Cincinnati, Ohio Branch Factories and Show Rooms: 101 Fourth Ave., 106-108 W. Lake St.. New York, N. Y. Chicago, 111, Established 1882. THEATRE SUPPLIES A Large Stock of Slightly Used Moving Picture Machines and Current Reducers (Latest Models) at about Half Prices. All Kinds Seating Always In >teck, Opera Chairs, slightly used, each $0.76 Heavy New Folding Chairs, each .40 Simplex, used three months 150.00 Power's 8A, ftrst-class condition. 140.00 Xdison Exhibitions, good condition SS.00 Don't forget. I take your old machine in trade regardless of make. All goods guaranteed in first-class condition. Will ship subject to inspection. Have many other good bargains. Send me an exact list of your wants and see why I sell more goods than all competitors combined. SAM LEARS. 509 Chestnut St.. St. Louis, Mo. LE COURRIER Cinematographiqae 26 Boulevard St. Denis, • Paris Directs**: Charles LK PKAPKX Journal hcbdomadaire francos, le plus important de 1'industrie cinematographique. ■■vole nnmero apAclmea, Mr demand* Aleaaemeat 1* ITL •• Electric Arc Lamps i^H N»v»r Med, iiulli for no rolti, a. 0. awl D. 0. ,<•.'• »mi.*r«», looo candlapowar; loldragolarlj it tie Our bargain price for each Ilka plctora, SO In. Ions, guaranteed in *a np ■writing or. audi eetoar ■ |p4.Zj COSMOS ELECTRIC CO.. 136 J. Libertj St. Nrw Y.rk CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING Rates for advertising under this heading, 3 cents per word, cash with order. 50 cents minimum charge per insertion. THEATRE FOR SALE MOVING PICTURE THEATRE FOR SALE ■ — Recently constructed; located in a popular residential section. Write immediately to P. O. Box 832, Waterbury, Connecticut. SUPPLIES SUPPLIES— 20 per cent cheaper. Send for new 1914 price list of Moving Picture Goods. Box 771, Norfolk, Va. MANAGER AT LIBERTY AT LIBERTY—A live and energetic M. P. Theatre Manager with eight successful years' experience. Excellent Advertiser. Can get results; has own original ideas; strictly sober and reliable. Desire to locate a permanent position anywhere in U. S. or Canada. Address all communications to P. O. Box 213, York, Pa. EVERY DAY 1,500,000 PEOPLE In Motion Picture Theatres of the United States listen to the WURLITZER MOTION PICTURE ORCHESTRAS HA VE YOU ONE ? IT PA YS 20 BRANCHES WuRUfZER 20 BRANCHES V CINCINNATI § The Famous American Professional MOTION PICTURE CAMERA A Guaranteed Scientific Motographlc Equipment. Perforators, Printers, Tripods, and Develop'** Outate. Proven by Test the World's Very Best. Agents for Eastman Motion Pioture FUm. American Cinematograph Company Send for Catalog T 617-631 Jackson Blvd. Chicago, III. A HINT TO PRODUCERS If reports from Germany are true, there is an important lesson for American producers in the crisis the film industry is facing there. Complaining that the theatres are being flooded by inferior pictures, those patrons who have the means to go elsewhere for their evening's entertainment are deserting the motion picture houses. Some critics are ing, "cm erproductii m," bul the real fault is said to be the mediocre character of the pictures shi iwn. Since the « ell to do form an important part of German picture audiences, the situation confronting the exhibitors in the Fatherland is a sei ii ius one. NEW MEN AT LIFE PHOTO Fred Dobson, who has been camera man with Kalem, Selig and Biograph, is now with the Life I'lmto Film Corporation as camera men for their feature productions. The light effects for "The Banker's Daughter" are now engrossing the attention of Mr. Dobson. The sets for this feature are being painted by Alfred E. Freudmann, formerly of the Famous Players Film Company. Freudmann is a graduate of the Art Academy at Carlsruhe, Germany, and an exceptional artist lie has been engaged as head scenic artist. frank Koch, for four years and a half stage carpenter with the Biograph Company, has also joined the Life Photo forces Who Is appearing in ('.rent Northern "Preferred Feature Attraction.'