Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-08-24
KRITERION FILM co.
UNDER NEW MANAGER
Baltimore and New York Busi-
ness Men Reorganize Com
pany-Film Notes
BY the Photoplar Editor

BY the PhotOplay Editor
After a long period Of negotiation and
investigation the entire film assets. trade
name, and good viii OF the Kriterion pro-
gram have been purchased outright by
S. l.. Newman, Of New York. and Lee
sonneborn, Of Baltimore, Md. The pur-
chase includes everything but the ac-
counts payable and receivable OF the kri-
terion Film Corporation. These latter are
In the hands Of receiver and settle
ment with creditors is TO be made.
Messrs Newman and Sonneborn have
incorporated under the name of the Kri-
terlon Sales Corporation. under the laws
of the State of New York. The now
concern will be strictly cooperative In
principle. A substantial number OF ex-
changes have already been signed up
Two hundred negatives made for the
original Kriterion program and Of the
same uniform good quality which distin-
guishes the releases of this program from
its outset are ready for immediate release.
These are all new subjects. They provide
the new company with II weeks advance
releases.
Production for the new program is also
already going on. The names of all the
producing companies will be announced
| shortly. The new program starts with Is
| releases week.
william Hamilton Osborne. author of
the new serial, Meal of the Navy" is the
! latest of the modern popular authors to
| enlist in the moving picture line He has
already written 500 short stories In the
last 13 years, and is also the author of
several best-selling novels, The Red
| Mouse" THE Catspaw," THE Blue
Buckle" and THE Running Fight"
Four companies have been working at
| the b. A. Rolfe-Metro studios, Broadway
and 6lst street. Ann Murdoch has COM
pleted - Royal Family" Emmy Wehlen
| is about through with when a Woman
Loves; Henry Kolker is working in THE
Bridge" and Ethel Barrymore is rehears-
ing her next Metro release, THE
| Shadow" Edmund Breese. Olga Petrova
and Gail Kane are working at the Pop
ular Plays and Players studio in The
Spell of the Yukon" my Madonna" and
Her Great Match" respectively.
Essanay has again boosted it's progress
by adding another three-reel drama each
week. Beginning with September II
| discontinues its one-act drama, released
on Monday and substitutes the three-reel
photoplay. The weekly progress thus con-
| slsts of two three-reel dramas, a two
reel drama and George AIDE Fable alter
| mating with an animated cartoon and
scenic release, a one-reel Western drama,
featuring G. NJ. Anderson and Marguerite
Clayton and one-reel Western comedy
| This makes a total of II reels each week
| exclusive of the Chaplin comedies and the
multiple-reel features on the V. L. S. E
program. Essanay has steadily been
growing away from the one-reel photo.
play in its Eastern productions, 1t being
President George X. Spoor's aim, in this
class of plays. to get more finished pro-
ductions and better dramatic works, plays
with a well-rounded plot. which it has
been found difficult to present on one reel
Pallas Pictures, Inc, is the name of thu
latest producing company to release
through the Paramount Pictures Corpora
ton, and already the new concern has ar
ranged TO present, in big screen offerings
Dustin Farnum and Maclyn Arbuckle.
Hello, Bill" by w. NJ. Goodhue, whicl
| was selected as the most fiting vehicl
for the premier film appearance of Messrs
Bickel and Watson, is rapidly nearing
completion.
George Ralph has won internationa
fame as an actor, and his playing in "Th
Yellow Jacket brought him an offer L
appear in Russia, when that very artist
play was presented in Moscow. Becaus
of the war conditions Mr.. Ralph is 5acl
in his native land, and will be seen in sup
port of Alice Brady, in 1.-The Renegade"
BY courtesy of the United States Nav!
Department, many motion pictures of lif
aboard the cruiser Maryland were takol
recently, while the ship was in southeri
California waters. They will figure promi
nently in the serial photoplay, entitled
Meal of the Navy" which is being mad
by the Balboa Amusement PRODUCING
Company. The Government co-operate'
in this picture. because 1t is intended t.
bring the navy to the favorable attention
of the country's population livery mem
ber of the ships complement, from Com
mander Kitelle to the humbest seaman
did all in his power to give an intimat
view of naval life. Leading parts in tn
piece are being played by Lillian Lorraine
who was the sensation of Broadway las
year, and William Courtleigh, Jr.. a well
known young actor.
Donald Brian. musical comedy star D
the Charles Frohman Company. is at tn
studios Of the Lasky Feature Play Com
pany at Hollywood. Cal, appearing in
picturization OF "The Voice in the Fog,
by Harold MacGrath.
Lon Tilligen's first production will D
''The Explorer" by Somerset Maughaul
The scene is an African village
|