The Billboard 1924-03-22: Vol 36 Iss 12 (1924-03-22)

os & ¥ ; th ereetares apponeee ADRs etn neenennees. 202 The Siliboers MARCH 22, 1924 Guaranteed Rebuilt Machines, $75.00 and up. Powers, Simplex, Montiograph and others. All Theatre Supplies and Equipment. Bargain list and catalog. MONARCH THEATRE SUPPLY CO., 228 Union Ave., M2mphis, Tennessee. apro BAND ORGAN, Wurlitzer, Style 125, Just tuned, new tubing, every note working, looks like new, painted shipping case. Cash or trade for old organ. ARTHUR W. NICHOLS, 49 Railroad Ave., Beverly, Massachusetts. with motor. WANTED TO BUY M. P. ACCESSORIES—FILMS 3e WORD, CASH. NO ADV. LESS THAN 250. 5e WORD, CASH. ATTRACTIVE FIRST LINE. Figure at One Rate Only—See Note Below. PROTESTANT, Religious, Western, Vaudeville and Comedy reels: reen exatnination, Only good peppy reels bought. HUGHE WARREN, Lamont, Mississippi. CLOSING OUT CHEAP—Power’'s 6A, $100; Power’s 5, Mazda equipped $50; Compenscre, $50; latest Pathesecope, $1(0; latest Edison, $75; De Vry, $100; Cosmogr: ph, motor-driven, suit-case model, runs films i slides $100; 6A Head, $25; 6A Lamp House and 8 $20: Asbestos Booth, $75; Fire Curtain, $100; 100 Theatre oe ~*~ Power’s Grid Rheostat, $10; Send stamp for Features. B. O. WETMORE, 1108 Boylston St., Boston, Mass. ERNEMANN CAMERA and Tripod, F. 3.5 ZeissTessar Lens $150.00..Barker Bros.’ Combination Camera and Projecting Machine, like new, $45.00. Write BARNETT LOAN CO., El Paso, Texas. FOR SALE—Royal Machine, Calcium Outfit, two Reels Film, fine condition, $65.00; Corona Typewriter, $25.00.HARRY WIKE, RK. venna, Ohio. FOR SALE-—Power’s 6A Motor-Driven, A-1 condition. Price, $135.00. $25.00 with order, subject examination. A. LUTHER, CHOKLETT CO., Virginia. FOR SALE—Power’s 5 Machine, one 5-Reel Western ; all in A-1 condition. $35 each, both $65. $10 deposit, examination allowed. ROY LUMSDEN, 526 Fifth St., Columbus, Georgia. HAND-DRIVEN PATHESCOPE—Popular (KOK) model, First-class condition. $25.00. SANOB FILM SERVICE, Box 421, Kankakee, Llinois. HEAVY TRIPOD WITH wey AND PAN, $75. Goerz Hypar Lens F. 3.5 in focusing mount, $21; Special F. 3.5 Lens. Will ship subject to examination on receipt of depos't. GORDON, 1002 Mallers Bidg., Chicdgo, Lilinois. HERTNER CONVERTER, new paviel board, 220 volts, solutely perfect condition, $3 Automatic simplex Ticket SeMing Machines, 2 units, $90.6) each; Ticket Choppers, very fine conditicn, $30.00 each. ATLAS MOVING PICTURE CC., 536 &. Dearborn St., Chicago. apr26 double 50 amperes, brand3 phase 6Q-cycle, ab00; 3 Factory Rebuilt MACHINES for theatre or road shows, churches and home use. Mazda Equipment for all machines. Arc Lamps and Rheostats, Magazines and Lamphouses, Machine —— or will rebuild your machine. 400 reels Film. Bargain lists free. NATIONAL of EQUIPMENT CO., Minnesota, MACHINES, $10.00 up; Stereopticons, Gas Outfits, Magazines, Mazda Outfits, Bible Slides. Stamp. FRED L. SMITH, Amsterdam, New York. MOTION PICTURE MACHINE PARTS for all machines at cut price. Slightly used Sprockets, $1 66 and $1.50. All kinds of used equipment cheap. We revuild machines or exchange. Power, Edison, Simplex and Motiograph Parts. We make your cid machine like new at low cost. NATIONAL EQUIPMENT CO., 409 West Michigan St., Duluth, Minn. MOTOR ATTACHMENTS FOR POWER’S, $3.00; for Edison, $10.00. JAMES CHAMBLESS, Bessemer, Alabama. NEW OPERA CHAIRS—Worth $3.75; while last, $2.50 each. Act quick. C. G. DES 845 South State, Chicago. — yi ge ge epee exhibition size, 15; nickel plated, $18.00; aluminum $20; doubledtaro! ving, $40. 110-yolt Rheostats, with are or 509watt mazda burners, $7. Illustrations free. GRONBERG MFG. CO., 1510 Jackson Bivd., Chicago, Illinois, Makers. \ 409 West Michigan 8t., Duluth, they 1EL, ~) ~~ NEW OR SLIGHTLY USED Calcium Gas Outfits cheap. Oxone, Ether Limes and Pastels. Complete Mazda Equipment for any make of machine, $15.00; brand new. Are Lamps and Rheostats, Lamp Honses for Theatre or Road Machines. Everything to start your show. Automobile Electric Generators for road shows. Wht do you need? NATIONAL EQUIPMENT CO., 409 West Michigan St., Duluth, Minnesota. m ONE EDISON MOVING PICTURE MACHINE, com plete, $25; ome Edison Machine complete, outside shutter, $50: one Veriscope Picture Machine (heavy duty), latest, $50. Terms $15 down, balance C. O. D., examination allowed. Machines rebuilt fine or der. One used Ford power attachment, GON BROS.. 85 Locust St., Aurora. OPERA CHAIRS—700 Picture Machines, SPECIALTY C0O., $20. THOMPIilinols, good Opera Chairs, Moving Gold Fiber Screen. GENERAL 612 N. Broadway, St. Louis. mar22 PITTMAN PROFESSIONAL CAMERA—A real rellable and rock-steady machine of 400-foot capacity, containing all features that a professional camera should have, including the ad‘ustable frame _ line, 3 magazines, F.8.5 lens, $125.00. SANOR FILM SERVICE, Box 421, Kankakee, Illinois. POWERS 6A MOVIE MACHINES—Mctor driven, guaranteed with either 30-volt. 30-ampere Mazda a ment or Arc, $175. BRINKMAN, 341 W. 4ith St., New York. hh | NEW DE VRY. cheap. V. HUMAREY, Lakeview, South Carolina. REAL | BARGAINS used Rebuilt Power and Simplex Machines. Road and theatre exhibitors, write for new large catalog. Everything for the theatre at a large saving .o you. NORTHERN THEATRE SUPPLY COMPANY, 211 West First St., Duluth, Minn. aprs SIMPLEX. Power’s and Motiograph Machines, re built, first-class condition, big bargains; secondhand Chairs, etc. Write su your needs. ATLAS MOVING PICTURE CO., 536 8. Dearborn St., L. cago. EREOPTICONS, new and slightly used. Mazie “aa Light. Biides of Passion Play anc * of Christ. Ten Nights in a Bar Room and others. Church and Lodge Slides. Typewriter Slides and Supplies. Advertising and Announcement Slides. Motion Picture Machines and Cameras. Lists free. NATIONAL EQUIPMENT CO., 409 West Michigan S&i., Duluth. Minnesota. $259 ACME PROJECTOR for $175; like new. BOX $2, Canton, Obi. SPOT CASH—Theatre and Suitcase Machines, Lobby WANTED—100 Machines, Power's. Simplex, Motio graph, Ediggn, Vry. Acme, American and others. We Muy al) theatre ‘oc What have you? MONSRCH THEATRE SUPPLY CC., Memphis, Toongsee. aprd5 WANTED—Sultcase and Portable Machines. Films and Equipment Full pa oa and price first letter. NATIONAL EQUIP CO., 409 West Michigan Duluth, ee WANTED—Films suitable for school and church. KUROK, 515 West 4ist St., New York Qity. mar2?9 WE PAY HIGHEST CASH PRICES for all make professional and portable Suitcase 7 com Street, (Continued from paze 81) looking an opportunity to enlarge the service they are doing. The bureaus cannot sell leetures at full fees to Kiwanis or Rotary clubs for short dinner speeches. But I believe that, if every such speaker was secured from a bureau that was »rganized for that purpese, the result would be more satisfactory to both speaker, club and bureaus. As bureaumen we do not keep in sufficiently close touch with the communities we serve. At least it would not be difficult for any bureau to secure a record from each town they were serving in order to know on what week days the clubs were meeting, and attractions billed for those days might be able to serve the clubs with special talks, in that way being of service to the community and inec'dentally enlarging the fee of ay Frames, Booths, Films, Heads, anything. “GRO| pensares, Rhbeostats, Spotlights, Stereopt ete. BARICK”, Eldridge Park, Trenton, Mew Jersey.| MONARCH THEATRE SUPPLY oo rT South Goods exchanged. mar22} Wabash Ave., Chicago. aprd NEWS NOTES. the attraction a trifle. If every bureau secured information from eack community, showing the various clubs, churches, men's classes, etc., which held regular meetings, a splendid and constructive work might be done along that line and the helpfulness of the bureau greatly augmented. > ~ -_--_ Karl W. Gebrkens, of the Conservatory of Music of Oberlin, 0., 1s lecturing on “The Relations of Music to Home and Life’. It is @ timely topic. Jazz music and jazz homes go hand in hand. —_-___ \ James Heaton, manager of the Assembly program at Winona Lake, Ind., not only looks after the interests of that chautauqua, but runs the Assembly at Daytona Beach, Fla., each year. Between these programs he is engaged (COMMUNICATIONS TO OWNERS OF AIRCRAFT Assume Great yore Under Knight i Albany, N. Y., March 14—There is a anon in the Knight Bill, recently intr duc in the Legislature, that the owner of eae operated over the lands or waters of the State is absolutely liable for injuries to persons or property caused by the ascent, descent or flight of the aircraft, or the dropping or falling of any object therefrom, whether such owner was negligent or not, unfess the injury is caused in whole or in part by the negligence of the person injured. If the aircraft is leased at the time both owner and lessee shall be liable, and they may be sued fointly, or either or both may be sued separately. An aeronaut who is not the owner or lessce shall be liable only for the consequences of h.s own negligence. The. injured person, or owner, or bailee of the injured property, shall hare a lien on the aircraft causiag the injury to the extent of the damage done by the craft or objects falling from it. The Knight Bill provides that the liability of the owner of one aircraft to the owner of another, or to aeronauts or passengers on either aircraft, for damages caused by ec ilision on land or in the air, shall be determined by the rules of law applicable to torts on land. All crimes, torts and other wrongs commit ed by or against an acronaut or passenger while in flight over the State shall be governed by the laws of New York State. The question whether damages caused constitutes a _ tort, crime or other wrong sball be determ'ned by the laws of the State. Under another provision all contractual or other legal relations entered into by aeronauts or passengers while in flight over the State shall have the same effect as if entered into on the land or wa’‘er beneath. It may be well for those interested in aviation to cut ont and retain the above data for future reference, BIG AIR SHOW STAGED AT ELLINGTON FIELD At Ellington Field, the Gates Tex., recently, participated in an serial show given by the Thirty-Sixth Division Air Service, under the general direction of Ivan Gates. Events staged included exhibiting various types of modern air craft, both commercial and mil'tary;: show!ng planes from the tiny scout to the giant bomber, a race over a marked course for planes under 181 horsepower, with minimum wing spread of forty-two feet; a balloon straffing contest; an altitude guessing Houston, Flying Circus contest, in which Lieut. E. V. MHarbeck ascended to a maXimum altitude and described small circles in the sky with his plane announcing he had rcached bis highest point, and the spectators guessing feet altitude the nearest number of he pad reached were* given a $25 cash prize. Event No. 4 included exhi!i ions of wing walking and aerial acrobatics of all k'nds. Rosalie Gordon led off with her porformance on the airplane piloted by Tommie Thompson, Dare-Devil Leininger perform ng on an airplane piloted by “Loop King’’ Billy 3rooks, and Diavalo (Milton Girton) perform ing on the airplane piloted by ‘‘Upside-Down’ rangborn. Tommie Thompson's dead-st ck Iznding exhibition was given as the fifth event, fol CUR CINCINN ATI OFFICES) = lowed by an exhibition of flying upsidedown by Clyde E. (“Upside-Down’’) Pangborn, the b !}t parachute drop by Diavalo and ebhanging planes in midair. The closing event of the meet was an aerial ensemb'e act, in which stunt aud f.necy iiying exhibitions were given. HENRY PHELPS REMINISCENT he story in a recent issue relating to the manner in whch the writer made the ccquaintance of the aged mother of Willlam A Hauner, balloonist, who was killed many years ago, prompted Henry A. Phelps, balloontist, of Grand, Rapids, Mich., to write as follows: “I have been making balloon ascensions for a number of years and met Wm, A. Hanner, who also was known as ‘Kit’ Hanner, To the best of my ability I would like to let you kn w about a few of my other friends Who have been killed while making or attempting to make balloon ascensions and parachute drops, and what I consider the prettiest ascens‘ons I have witnessed. Some of the great aerial acro a's were John Grew, who was killed at O tawa Beach, Mich., about twenty-three years ago. He was a brother of Ben Grew, who last year made parachute drops from an airplane at Checkerboard Flying Field in Chicago. Herman S8. (Doc) Martin was killed at Pellston, Mich, about five years ago. Mrs. Etta Meixel, injured at Lowell, Mich., July 4, 1917, @ed at a hospital in Grand Rapids. Helen Grace was killed at Stanton, Mich., about eight years co. Clifford Bissonnett was kille@ at Red Wing, Minn., twelve rears ago. Pearl Pion was killed at Howard City, M'ch., about ten years ago. Homer Hazard drowned at Houghton, M(°ch., about fifteen years ago. Vernon Moore was killed at Lakev ew, Mich., atont four years ago. I was personally acquainted with Mrdeline Davis, of Wachula, Fla., who was k lied in New Jersey while doing or attempting an airplane stunt. Of the number of balloon ascensions I witnessed the best was made by Betty Brown, of Chicigo, at a park in Nashville, Tenn., about four years ago. She went straicht up and was out of « ght when s‘ar‘ting down in her parichute. She landed less than one hundred feet from where she started.’* CINCINNATI YOUTH JOINS ARMY AVIATION CORPS Fdwin P. Bolenbaugh, son of a Cincinnati public school principal, entrained last week for the San Antonio (Tex.) Flying Field, where he will train a year for rank In the army air service. He had a year’s training at the MeCook Field, Dayton, O., while assigned as parttime student under the co-operative course of the University of Cincinnati] Engineering College and assisted with helicopter d-monstrations. He also had experimental work in parachute Jeaping, having made several descents from a height of 200 feet after parachutes bad been tested with lead dummies. Bolenbangb is the only man to enlist from Southern Ohio for the class just enrolled. Helen M. Sparks, daring aviatrix, has joined the Mac Flying C reus for wing walking, parachute and other daredeviltry on the plane. BB. McMullen, “The Flying Farmer’’, is pilot. The Oying circus will open in untingtene Ww. Va. Canvas Specialties of All Kinds. PHONE: DIVERSEY 3820 Bel BALLOONS & PARACHUTES-4 CAMPING TENTS CONCESSION NORTHWESTERN BALLOCH & TENT CO. W. F. McGuire, Manager 1635 FULLERTON AVE., CHICAGO in conducting the music for various religious gatherings. Much of the success of these two chautauquas is due to his untirfig energy. Fred High addressed the Kiwanis Club at Cairo, Ill., March @. Howard Wade Kinsey, who a few years since was at the head of a concert company on the chautauquas, is at present located in New York City, where he has made community singing his profession and is kept very busy. He is also the song leader of the New York Kiwanis Club. Ralph Bradford, who was for a number of years connected with the platform as a lecturer and representative, has accepted a position as secretary of the Commercial Club of Corpus Christi, Tex., and is already at work in his new position. ‘Those who know Bradford and hits record are fully assured of his success in his new field of activities, Dr. Pitman Potter, professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin, is lec turing at many points in that State upon ‘The International Situation and the Attitude of the United States’’, “When the railroads want to run a train,” says Fred High, “they employ an experienced engineer. When they desire to build a locomotive they employ experienced mechanics, But when they wish to secure a lecturer to tell of the wonders along their Ines they usually select some clerk in an office, give him a ‘patent lecture’ to commit and send him out. They have good pictures which tell the story much better than the speaker. The pictures lure the prospective travelers, and the speakers undo the work of the pictures. It is poor economy to spoil good advertising by poor talking.”” That is very true. A @ozen times in the past few weeks we have seen newspaper elippings of such lectures in whieh the pictures only are praised and the wm called lecture ignored. There are in round numbers about 3,000 Persons engaged in platform work. Most of them are regular Billboard readers. These pages give the platform news each week. Your name should be in them. You who are reading this item should report to us regularly. We should have your circular and photograph on file, and you should let us know wi 4 whom you are booked for summer and winter. I received a letter last Wednesday from a well-known lecturer stating that he did not have a contract for next summer. In less than forty-eight bours 1 had for him an eight weeks’ contract for the summer. It does not pay to neglect publicity. St down now and write about your work before you forget it. The Chicago Daily News conducts twenty lecture courses in the city of Chicago. Every Friday n'ght an {illustrated lecture is given in each one of the twenty schools which are being given this service, and The Daily News pays the bills, The sehvice is in charge of Mr. Baker, who has been looking after it for years, and has everything reduced to a science. The News is doing more to give the young school folks of Chicago a practical knowledge of Reography than all the school courses of the city, Richard Burton, of the University of Minnesota, has been lecturing in the East on the subject of “Significant Current Books’, He takes oceasion to criticise the American reader, stating that ‘“‘the type of book which is among the list of best sellers is an indication that we are not a very critical people.” I imagine that his hearers will not change their habits of reading, and yet it is a relief to hear the truth Instead of the usual self-praise of the American lecturer, which sometimes passes for patriotism. For more than twenty years the State Edocational Department of New York has been supplying slides and descriptive lectures for the various schools of the State. The slides and lectures are intended to teach art, physical geography, rules of health, topography, ge logy, literature and industry. The schools of the State are all supplied with lanterns, hence this lecture service is a very vital part of the educgtional system. Not only are schools supplied with these lectures, but any other society is able to take advantage of this service by making proper application. At present they have 2,792 geograph'c «lides, 703 yistory, 624 literature, 774 animal life, 627 industries, 1,138 art. Parachutes In all sizes for Aeroplane and Balloon Drops. Specify your weight. Full line of Balloons, Inflators, ete. Established 1903. THOMPSON BROS.’ BALLOON CO., Aurora, Illinois. AIRPLANE FOR SALE isn JN‘D), slightly owed, tuily equipped. Deliver by sir. Price, $700.00, Address AMERICAN AIMPLANE ©O., Humboldt, Tenn.