Omaha daily bee., 1915-09-21
Triangle Nights.

Pretty nearly every day somebody says
but how in the world did you do it all quicky9"
And the answer is--"We didn't
AS a matter of fact Triangle Film has been really years
in the making.
But like many great enterprises which have been long in
Notwithstanding was said of it until it was done.
To do first end talk later the idea.
For long long time Griffith and Ince and Sennett have
been making moving pictures that much ahead of
binary that exhibitors almost fought to get them.
But like all ambitious especially artiststhey
a the time fretng because te wanted TO make them better
still and were held down by the money limitations of low
priced theatres
Even so-ty were pcriecng great organzations-which
got better every day
Among them they had got together about fifty of the
most expert photographers in the world and with each Of
these trying make clearer beautiful pictures than the
rest you can imagine the perfection Of the studios!
1t enough that directors who ambitious
gathered about Griffith, nce and Seunctt-especay when
they what photography they were producing.
All this time tho acting getting better Really wonder
fu artists Developing
Mae Marsh Ralph Lewis,
Seena Owen, Robert Heron,
Wallace Reid, William s. Hart,
Enid Marley Fred Mace,
Bessie Barriscae Ford Sterling
Mabel Normand, Roscoe Arbucke,
Lillian and Dorothy Gish
Everybody ch0fed under the holding back Of Price
Then Griffith broke all bounds jumped all barriers got
of his friends help with moneyund his hook
produced 1.-The Birth of a Nation"
Everybody said it md everybody said it
wouldn't pay!
Then it shown in New York; the whole
ored for seats at $500 EACH
Don't you how simple the rest was'
The behind Griffith and Sennett took off tho
financial cid" aud the fur began to fly with vengeance
Each of these great directors had his sleeve wonderful
things he ID been waiting to 10 for years.
Here certain stage the needed touch; there
tremendous mob still again amazing mechanical
"effec that would cost fortune
Directors and actresses outdd Them
selves!
Stage Stars that had always SHE'D at moving pictures lis
tened-and came;
found that the best show always succeededno
matter what rent had been paid for film eegraphng
Tor reservations that the rest fought for what left
The star executive of the big film distributing companies
let it be known that their services might be had
And all this time no company had been formed-nothug
had been arrived at beyoun rough general understanding
among the men who had put up the money.
Less than two months tho thing finally shape and
"Trange Film" became Corporation
1t has no liabilities
It's assets probably the valuable pieces of paper
ever executed in the film busncssor they
the work of these three supervising producers years to comet
It's chief stockholders besides these future is
pledged IT, twere Adam and Charles Kcsse Charles
and H. Aitken, every had got rich in tho
film business.
It's executives the picl; of the industry
It's goodwill the promise of business exhibitors If
the very highest type the country over!
So you it isn't very wonderful all that newly
corporate it u.s. Triangle Film is already fine strong
noothrunning mnchne-dong business as easily and eff.
GENTLY as though It's parts had been working together for
years.
Nor that the Triangle Plays which first appear at the
Hnlckerbocker T"Htre, New York. Thursday will have
the perfection that only with years preparation and
months of polishing.
And is isn't very strange either that Just rs good many
people in New York set aside evenings week as
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