The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-06-25
AT the Parks and Beaches.

Dorothy Jardon will be seer at
The head Of the programme az the
New Brighton Theatre this week.
Walter Kelly. the inimitable story
teller who calls himself the Nir-
ginia Judge: Frank .Ardell. Loney
Haskell's mechanics. Britt Wood
Bense and Baird and a long list
OF popular performers are on the
programme.
Luna Park is TO have the famou'
high diver X. p. Speedy. who will
make q dive Of 12o feet. Other
attractions Of the park are Bos-
tock's Animal Arena. the Zeppe-
lin attack by night and numerous
interesting acts. To-
Maude Thompson. who says
she is the real daughter OF Nep-
tune whatever others may say to
the contrary. will do high ard
fancy diving in the pool at Pail
SADIE Park this week. Others on
the programme of the free enter
tainrnent are the Leach-La Quin-
Ian Trio. Roeder and Rice. Ell
mer and Tom and Louis Soicho.
Glen Islands were Yesterday
opened to the public and will re-
main ready for visitors all Sum
mer.
This group Of fyc islands. with
over 100 picturesque acres. were
discovered by the late Capt. John
H. Starin forty years ago and
made famous by him through the
ingenious methods he employed
in bringing forth their natural
beauty and advantages as a pleas
urs ground for New Workers.
Early in March of this year the
; Peerless Pictures Corporation
startled the realty world and the
press by buying outright Glen
Islands with the entire equipment
thereon. The deal was made
through the Starin executor. Gen.
Howard Carroll. The price was
not given. but it was said to be
anywhere between three-nuarters
and A million dollars. The pur-
pose of purchase was to erect the
most modern and largest steel
constructed studios for motion
picture work on this continent.
The incorporators of the Peerless
corporation saw the wonderful
natural advantages of the islands
for a new phase of the motion
picture art, and lost no time in
securing them.
The commercial value Of the
little group nestled in the Sound.
which had made no small portion
Of the Starin fortunes. was not
overlooked by the directors Of
the subsidiary corporation,
known as the Glen Islands corpo-
ration. The resultant effect has
been the reopening of the spa
cious parks to the public. a
100000 museum, possessed of
historic American relics: the re-
production of Starnburg castle.
the old Dutch mill in the Zuydcr
Zee, built in Holland in l64l and
brought here by Capt. Starin, 4
section Of Nippon and the Moro
Castle. whose stones came from
the Philippines on an Amer
lean man-of-war, are some of the
interesting sights still intact and
10 be preserved by the new cor
poration.
a new feet Of steamers vii,
ply between New York and the
islands every hour. On the hour,
starting at the Battery and stop-
ping at East Twenty-fourth
street and Fast I25th street.
Motorists will find accommodate
tons in n new automobile ferry
boat with capacity for carving
thirty automobiles evcry fifteen
minutes acrOs to the island
landing. A restaurant and grill
whose cuisine will equal any on
Broadway. a dancing pavilion. an
open air theatre, a specially Sc.
lccted hand and orchestra. the
enlarged bathing beach. boating
grounds laid out for all kinds nj
outdoor sports and one Of the
islands to he known as Pleasure
Island. on which will he found =
radical departure in mechanica
and diverting amusements, al
make their appeal to a pleasure
seeking public,