Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-08-26
Highways and By-Ways
of Lii OF New York
OoPJTIgII0' ISNI' Uy FuD'IO LeugeT %
By RAYMOND CARRALL

who went in made money, few kept II
as Frank Marion, Edwin H. Porter ana
Sam Long Col. William Selig, an ex-
circus man. laid out an animal PARK III
Los Angeles with his profits. "Broncho
Billy" Anderson built theaters and sold
them. Col. J. Stuart Blackton, who is
now in England with Sir. Thomas Lip
ton, owned yachts which is pretty good
for an ex-chalk artist from the Chau-
tauqua circuit. where his magic lantern
was Albert e. Smith, another film mag
nate.
BIOGRAPH MADE
FIRST CLEANING.
1t was the Mutual which took Griffith
away from the Biograph people and
shared the first big wad Of Wall street
money. 1t set the pace with the first
studio of size at Santa Barbara. paid II
per cent dividends, hired Charley Chap
lin for 100000 a year, the first big
salary to a screen artist. I asked for
the Mutual the Rex, the Champion, the
Centaur and all the other companies we
used to hear Of Gone, all Of them. Nhe
Universal was formed to take over a lot
Of the wrecks that have strewn the path
OF the past. As far as l can ascertain
Crawford Livingston, a banker. put the
first Wall street money into the motion
picture industry, the Rialto Theater in
Broadway. There was a rush of big
fnanciers eager to clean up in the pic
tures-Thomas Fortune Ryan, James A.
Stillman, Gen. T. Coleman du Po1t, Felix
and Otto Kahn and long list and after
the financiers came the banks dipping
into their gold bins and extending loans
Motion pictures today have become
standardized, for with the advent Of the
banks came shoals OF auditors checking
up expenditures and curtailing waste
One of the large studios a few days ago
closed down the tearoom that 1t ran for
the benefit Of its women employees. An
auditor from Wall street did that. 1t Is
an Industry that has become a part of
big business and no place for small cap
ital and a graveyard for the fortunes Of
the inexperienced. That is why such men
a. Zukor, Fox and Loew, who used to
run penny srcades and rubbed elbows
with the public have battered their way
through all these years and now make
the entertainment their own picture thea
ters offer; their box offices kept them go
ing when others went to the wall
Yours, r. G. c.
The Hylan "Angustsls" are again vo-
ciferously in evidence at the hearings OF
the Meyer legislative investigating com
mittee. They were in excellent form dur
Ing the recent uncovering Of graft
charges in connection with the renting
Of space IN the city markets and demon
strated they were under clever direction
for they alternately applauded and
bOOed exactly In the right places. SO far
as IS definitely known the Emperor
Nero was the first to use professional ap-
plauders and whenever he acted in
Rome ne had his performances greeted
by an encomium chanted by 5000 Of his
soldiers who were given the name Of An
guStals.
It was the recollection OF the way In
which Roman mobs were swayed by the
Angustals that caused the sixteenth cen
fury French poet. Jean Daurat, TO re-
viye the claque to boost performances Of
his plays. a claque thoroughly organ
tied on the modern French plan requires
a chef de claque and Ave sets Of boost
ers. The commissaires who have lea rned
the coming events by heart and cali the
attention of their neighboTs to the good
points scores for their side as the pro-