# The Moving Picture World/Volume 1/Number 2/Trade Notes

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Trade Notes
The Burtis annex in Water street, Auburn, is opened for the exhibition of moving pictures and vaudeville. It is proposed to give six performances a day and the admission will be five cents. *** A new company, to be called the Progressive Amusement Company, of Dallas, has been formed, with a capital stock of $10,000. The incorporators are L. A. Harris, Ike I. Lorca and B. Benno. *** Arcadia Amusement Company, Arcadia, Los Angeles (Cal.), has been formed for the purpose of establishing a resort in which a large theater will be set aside for moving pictures. Capital stock, $200,000. *** Dwight Elmendorf gave the last of his illustrated lectures on travel at Carnegie Music Hall, Pittsburg, recently. His subject was "The Land of the Midnight Sun." The motion pictures were excellent, one showing the sport of ski running being one of the most amusing aver seen by a Pittsburg audience. *** It is announced that S. Z. Poli has purchased the St. Mary's church property on Church street, New Haven, where is now located his Bijou Theater, paying about $130,000. It is centrally located and happens to be the ground on which Mr. Poli made his first venture as the manager of a vaudeville thater fifteen years ago. *** Rocky Glen, Scranton's first amusement park, has been sold to a New York and Boston syndicate. The consideration is not known, but is claimed by Mr. Frothingham to exceed $260,000. The new owners will take immediate possession and, it is claimed, will spend $50,00 in improvements, this year. Mr. Frothingham gives ill-health as his reason for disposing of the property. *** ​Dr. W. H. Earle, vice-president of the Southern California Realty Company, is at the head of a syndicate of Los Angeles and Eastern capitalists which plans to erect a fine tourist hotel or a building devoted to amusement purposes on the ocean front opposite the Decatur Hotel. The site, which is 231 feet in length, extending from Marine street to Navy avenue, has just been purchased *** The building on Lisbon street, Lewiston, formerly occupied by the Lewiston Morning News, has been leased by the Shepherd Moving Picture Company for the opening of a theater.
Ralph Ward, identified with this company, has had the matter in charge. About $2,000 will be spent on the interior. Opera chairs will be put into the building, and the best kind of pictures will be shown.
It is to be called "The Bijou." It will be a "nickel" show after the style of these houses in other cities. *** Before long Des Moines will be seeing moving pictures of the Thaw trial. Fred Buchanan has received word that pictures of the famous trial are now in preparation and will soon be sent out all over the country. They will show the entire tragic story from the time Evelyn Nesbit was a young girl to the thrilling episodes in the court room. The Lubens Picture Company is getting up pictures and they have scoured the country for models as nearly like the real actors in the tragedy as possible.
[Surely there is enough rubbish on the market, without inflicting the public with such nauseous films. We hope the better element of the public will express their disapproval, and that legal steps will be taken to prevent such exhibitions.—Ed.] *** We learn that Dr. Henry R. Rose of Newark, N. J., has prepared a special lecture for Y. M. C. A. meetings, which is something entirely new, in the way of an illustrated story of the life of Christ. The slides used were secured in a most interesting manner. Dr. Rose went to Europe and photographed every great painting, both ancient and modern, bearing on the life of Jesus. He thus secured reproductions of every noted masterpiece on this subject in Europe. Then he had his artist, the slide maker for the Metropolitan Museum of Fine Arts, sit before the originals in the galleries of Italy, Belgium, Germany, France and England and paint on each slide the colors exactly as they appear in the originals. The outcome was 125 stereopticon slides, said to be the finest of the kind ever produced. *** Ernest Harold Baynes, the well-known naturalist, of Newport, N. H., was highly entertaining in his lecture on "The Blue Mountain Forest," the largest fenced game preserve in the world, at High School Assembly Hall, Stoneham, Mass. Many stereopticon views were shown of interesting topics touched upon.
Mr Baynes' home is on the very borders of Austin Corbin's game preserve, which contains forty square miles of wild mountainous country in New Hampshire, and he is devoting much of his time in a careful study of the buffalo, bears, wild boars, moose, deer, elk and other smaller animals, with which the reservation has been stocked.
The lecturer spoke very entertainingly of his various experiences with these animals, and his description of their habits, appearance, and mode of life, proved him an authority on the subject.
Mr. Baynes is one of the leaders in the movement to preserve the buffalo from extinction, and told of the progress made toward that end.