Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-03-16

The wild promotion OF films and the
newer concerns connected with them Is
inviting tho attention of the large com
mcrcial agencies, Bradstrects and Duns.
according to picture man who has oeen
requested 10y AN agency tu furnish details
regarding tho manipulators In this branch
OF tho film business.
Tho commercial agencies are securing
accurate data, 1t is said. on the group or
people who have seized upon feature films
for "suukcr money" as an easy means
Of obtaining coin more quickly than the
widest gold mining days ever offered.
The sources Of some OF the feature
people In raising money from the public
to further sink into the feature wells
have nmaHed the strictly picture trade
mcu. II Is practically admitted by Tho
expert him makers that the feature pic
tutc condition just now Is nearly pro-
htbitivc for profit making Among tho
newer concerns, the picture people
charge, - profit showing comes about
through bookkeeping Juggling. Yet IT is
well known that a feature concern haro
pressed one day has plenty of money the
next. and that the sudden increase of Its
capital has been obtained outside OF the
usual trade channels This it what In
termed sucker money" and secured as
rule through an investment for stock
or the promoters Inducing capitalist or
monied men to invest"
Tho cXtravagant methods Of operation
by most of the newer feature film cor
poratIons are sufficient in themselves,
say the picture people, to prevent II lesltl-
mate profit The older and better known
feature manufacturers are reported in
good shape financially.
The better and more husinesslkc Tea
ture concerns that are working on their
own capital and for a profit in legiti-
mate way rather than giving all their at
tention to stock selling, are deploring the
entrance into the picture business OF the
promoter. The commercial agencies have
looked up the business record of any
number OF promoters. With one man
they are said to have learned that in
his entire career he was never connected
with a permanently successful venture
A Comic Tragedy
George S. 'rrimblc, of the Lubin players,
who can step on a pair of scales any
hour of the day and make the arrow spin
around to the 215-pound notch, Is one or
lie most versatile of the character mon
in the studio, especially when 1t comes TO
comedy, and well he might be- for Trim
bic has a quarter of a century of the
atriCal ana operate experience back of
him. The weight question never hothers
Trimhle. except on rare occasions, and
one of these occasions occurred last sum
lnCr when TrimDlc was doing q scene III
the Patsy Bolivar series.
Trlmblc was playing the part of an inn
keeper. and Peter Lang, who. by the way,
weighs 265 pounds, was an irate father,
and they started to chase and capture
an elopug couple. The couple, both light
weights. waded across a swamp in part
of the chase scene. Trmble and Lang
fOuudered after them until they got into
the middle of the swamp and there they
hpt CtnfL Et The they StruE-
glcd the deeper they sank To get the
Ialr of heavyweights out 1t was neccs-
sary to utilize a stout rope and a horse
Trmblc is an actor of the old school,
and played with such stars as Barrett,
Willard, Mansfield, Keen and Lewis Nor
rison. His first engagement was with
Havereys minstrels as bass singer,
after which he took up the serious drama,
playing the leads and heavies in an eN-
tenslve repertoire. Returning to min
strelsv he made the trip to England with
Haverlev's Mastodons and came back to
America to sing the bass roles with Paul
ine Hall in the Gilbert and Sullivan
operas.
Following this engagement Trimble be-
came associated with Dan DAILY. Andrew
Mack and George Fortescue: played one
season with Mansfield; played couple of
seasons with Keen, and then made a trip
to Honolulu with Nance O'Nel and L. II.
Stockwell and Mckee Rankin Upon his
return Trimbe Joined Lewis Morrison,
then playing u repertoire OF classical