New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-09-22
ADVERTISEMENTS.
ADVERTISEMENTS.
ADVERTISEMENTS.
Triangle Nights.

Pretty nearly every day somebody says
But how in the world did you do it all so quckty'"
And the answer is-"We didn't.
AS matter of fact, Triangle Film has been really
gears in the making.
But like many great enterprises which have been long
in preparation nothing said of it until it was DONE
To do first and talk later the idea
For a long, long time Griffith and nce and Sennett
have been making moving pictures that much ahead
of ordinary that exhibitors almost fought to get them
But like all ambitious men-especaly artists-they
all the time feng because they wanted to make them
better still and held down by the money limitations of
ow-prced theatres.
Even so-they were perfectng great organizations
which got better every day.
Among them they had got together about fifty of the
expert photographers the world and with each of
these trying to make clearer beautiful pictures than
the you imagine the perfection of the studios!
1t was natural enough that directors who
bilious gathered about Griffith Ince and Sennet-especa
y when they what photography they producing
All this time the acting getting better. Really
wonderful artists Developing
Mae Marsh Ralph Lewis
Seena Owen Robert Heron.
Wallace Reid William s. Hart,
Enid Narkey, Fred Mace,
Bessie Barriscae Ford Sterling,
Dorothy and Lillian Gsh.
Everybody chafed under the holding back of Price.
Then Griffith broke all bounds jumped all barriers
got Of his friends to help with money-and on his
hook produced THE Birth of Nation
Everybody said it was wonderful-and everybody said
it wouldn't pay!
Then it was shown in New York; and the whole town
clamored for seats at $500 EACH
Don't you how simple the rest was
The men behind Griffith and nce and Sennett took off
the financial lid and the fur began to fly with vengeance.
Each of these great directors had up his sleeve
derfu things he'd been wanting to do for years!
Here certain stage star the needed last touch:
there tremendous mob scene; still again amazing
mechanical effect that would cost fortune
Directors men-actors and actresses outdd
themselves!
Stage Stars that had always SHE'D at moving pictures
lsened-and came
Then the tckled out; wise exhibitors for they
had found that the best show always succeeded
no matter what rent had been paid for flm-began ee-
graphing for reservations and that the rest fought for
what left.
The star executives of the big film distributing
panes let it be known that their services might be had
And all this time company had been formed-noth-
ing had been arrived at beyond rough, general under
standing among the men who had put up the money
Less than two months ago the thing finally took shape
and triangle Film became Corporation.
1t had no liabilities
Its assets probably the most valuable pieces of
paper executed in the film bsness-for they
contracts for the work of these three supervising producers
for years to come
Its chief stockholders besides these men-whose future
is pledged to it-were Adam and Charles Kesse Charles
Bauman and II. f. Aitken, every of whom had got
rich in the film business
Its executives the pick Of the industry.
Its goodwill, the promise of business from exhibitors
of the very highest type the country Overt