Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-11-23
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TRIANGLE FILMS
FOR THE COLONIAL
New Series Showing in 81
Houses in the Big
Cities


from the Colonial Theater to the effect
that beginning next Monday the cele-
brated Triangle Film Program, to
which seats are sold for $3.50 and 81
in New York. will be inaugurated at
the busy corner playhouse. Triangle
Film plays have been shown for the
past two months at the Knickerbocker
Theater. New York, and the Chestnut
Street Opera House, Philadelphia, at
prices equal to those charged for the
best plays in the dramatic and musical
comedy houses.
In adopting Triangle Film plays at
the Colonial, Wilmer, Vincent & APP
pell have contracted to pay much
more for film service than was ever
paid in Harrisburg before. No an
nouncement has been made yet as TO
what prices will be charged, although
it is not likely that the scale of S1.5O
and So will be adhered to in this city.
Walter Vincent president of the VIII
mer and Vincent company, said, while
In Harrisburg to-day, that an effort
will be made to give these attractions
at prices within everybody's reach,
only. of course, 1t will be impossible
to maintain the 10-cent standard now
charged for films that cannot be COM
pared in merit or cost with Triangle.
In addition to the new service an
orchestra will be installed. It will be
the biggest orchestra that ever was
employed regularly in a Harrisburg
theater and in conjunction with the
big Moller pipe organ, over which Her
man Yeager presides, will afford excel
lent music for the new pictures. One
Of the points that makes Triangle pic
lures stand out above all others is that
music is specially written for each re-
lease, so that every picture is bound to
have its proper setting.
But this Is only one of the good
points of Triangle service. The main
thing about it is the general excellence
of the pictures. With Triangle it is
not like other services a good picture
this time and an inferior one next
time-it is the only film service on the
market with a consistently good pro-
gram all the time And there is not
one feature with Triangle, but two. A
drama of five reels and a comedy of
two or three reels comes with each
show, and in addition the Colonial will
give the popular Pathe News.
What is Triangle service? 1t is a
film service provided by the three
greatest film directors of the day. Da-
yid W, Griffith needs no further in
PRODUCTION than the mere statement
that he is the man who directed THE
Birth of a Nation, the most wonder
full moving picture that ever was
made. Thomas Ince is the founder of
Inceville and the director of some of
the best film dramas that were ever
produced. MACK NeIlneIl name is
well known through his connection
with Keystone comedies. He is the
man who made Charlie Chaplin
famous.
These three men direct the pictures
that go to make up the Triangle pro-
gram. The Colonial will play two pro-
grams a week, one on Monday, Tues
day and Wednesday and the second
on Thursday, Friday and Saturday.
Each program will contain one of
Tthese well-directed dramas, a multiple
reel comedy and a Pathe News.
One of the most sought for things
In motion pictures to-day is comedy.
Everybody knows that when a new
Charlie Chaplin picture is released the
theater that is able to book it is re-
garded as lucky. It means filed
houses. Everybody likes to laugh. |
After next Monday nobody will be able
TO sit through a Colonial show and not
have plenty of laughter, for there will
be funny picture every day in the
week to laugh at. There is no director
in the moving picture business better
adapted to making folks laugh than
Mack Sennett.
There is no gainsaying that other
people make good pictures sometimes
said Mr.. Vincent to-day I'VE have
had our experience at the Colonial
with other services Other exhibitors
have had their experience, too. One
feature will be splendid and then along
comes one that does not appeal. That
is not so with the Triangle pictures.
They are made by the best directors
and with the thought in mind of play
ing to 50 audiences. The result is
that every picture so far released by
the Triangle people has been good.
And we will show two of these fea-
lures on every program. The come
dies alone are funny enough to keep
the house filled all the time. ADV.