Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-09-01
MORE EARTHQUAKES
INPHOTOPLAYDOM
Selig Essanay Consolidation
Rumored With Dismember-
ment of v. l.. S. E.
BY the Photoplay Editor


Big things and secret things are happen
Ing these days in photoplay land The lates
Is the rumor Of big split in the v. J.. s
f., the organization which has been dis.
trlbutlns the feature films OF the vitasraph
Lubin seig and Essanay. According to
report. the Vitagraph Is virtually 10 alb
sorb the former distributing organization
using II for the release Of its own products
AT the same time It s said that the selig
and Essanray companies are to consolidate
under the name OF Success
There is this much very definitely 10 he
announced A Success corporation has been
organized. Numbering among its principal
| stockholders a group of the wealthest steel
| fnagnates OF Pittsburgh. who heretofore
have not shown any interest in the produc-
Ing Of motion pictures giant parent com
pany has been launched with capltaliza-
tion Of $500, 900, Incorporated under the
laws OF North Dakota, There are three dl-
visions in the corporation, each separate
organization. yet all under the one head.
this having been done TO assure the sue
cess of the venture
The Success Films Producing Corpora
ton, with a capital OF $4,000, ,O0O is the
first division. This organization will man.
ufacture the films.
The second division is the Success Films
Releasing Corporation. with o capital Of
Ss.OOO,OOO. which will look after the book
ing and programs of the first division.
10 secure number of theaters In every
large city. which will guarantee the COM
pany a positive outlet for the pictures pro-
duced, the Success Films Real Estate Cor
poration is the third division of the organi.
zation with capital of SO 0OO0
The last angle--theater ownershIp--Is OF
vital Importance. 1t represents the first ac-
tual attempt at scheme of solid organiza-
rrah
was rumored to be about to put into effect
when reports of movie trust" were rife
Following Immediately upon the announce.
ment that william A. Brady and Ricord
Gradwell. executives of the World Film
corporation, had signed Lew Fields and
Marie Dressler to appear exclusively in
World features for term OF years. comes
the announcement that 10.reel feature
picture is to be directed by Maurice
Tourneur at the Paragon Studio of 'The
Whip" the DruIv Lane success of a few
years ago 1t VIII be released In about
three months.
The announcement that Rabindranath
Tagore will visit America this year calls to
mind the fact that the noted Bengalese
poet once painted the scenery for an all |
Hindu performance of Shakespeare's Julius |
Caesar" This was given on the estate of |
his kinsman, the Maharajah OF Tagore and |
the production was staged by Harry Neville, |
now of the Metro.Rolfe forces, who has ap |
peared in "Dimples." 1.-THE Pretenders," |
'''rhe Blindness of Love" and other produc. |
tions. and is now in the support of Emily |
Stevens in her new ive-act production, as |
yet unnamed.
'Bahu Nath Tagore," says Mr.. Neville |
explaining that Babu is ceremonial prefix |
''is an artist of ability as we'll as a poet and |
and IL he had not written
'Gitanjalf and his other volumes he might
have figured as an Oriental Reinhardt or
Urban"