Palisadian., 1923-06-15
FORT LEE MAY SOON AGAIN BE
ALARCE MOVIE CENTER, Interview
D|SCL0SES; ALL MUST COOPERATE
Improved Ferry and Car Service Will Help Lot; a
Number of Studios Are Now Busy; Big Meeting
Planned For Early Date; Officials to Aid

AT present in Fort Lee there Is
about S3,000,000 worth of property and
buildings owned by various motion
picture interests. Some few years ago
Fort Lee was we'll known as a motion
picture center, then the business began
to die for different reasons. Some at
tributed the cause to the general
slump in the motion picture industry,
which was nation wide, for time;
others to the poor transportation ia
cilities from New York to Fort Lee,
and scores Of other explanations have
been offered.
The recent activity at the present
studios has quickened the interest O.
all anxious for the development of the
borough, for the motion picture indus
try afforded hundreds of citizens en-
ployment and enabled them to make
a good living in their home town.
Mr. Troy, the young and enterpris-
ing editor of the Bergen Citizen, Sc
cured an interview with VIM. Brady.
father of Alice Brady, relative to the
possibility of Fort Lee again becom-
ing movie center, and with his per-
mission we print the result of his in
vestigations:
When approached by Mr.. Troy, the
producer said, Il am willing to appear
before the Mayor and Council or your
Board of Trade-anything to get the
cooperation sought"
In his conversation he learned that
Mr.. Brady was of the opinion, the
ferry and car service should be i'm
proved and assurance that electric
power might not be cut off. There
were other matters of less i'm mportance,
all of which he would repeat at the
proper time.
Monday afternoon meeting was
held in Hackensack, at which United
States Commissioner Arthur NJ Ag-
new, Magistrate James D. Moore,
James DAILY, Bernard Turner, Manager
of the William A. Brady interests,
William A. Brady and others were
presented.
A committee was formed, which will
enlist the aid of Mayor George F. Hill,
and the members of the Council.
Mayor Henry Wissel, of Edgewater,
eX-Mayor Edward A. White, of Fort
Lee, Senator William B. Mackay, As
semblyman Todd, De Lorenzo and
Lyons, Thomas N. McCarter. president
and John L. O'Toole, vice president
of the Public Service Corporation, and
many other prominent men and
women in Fort Lee and Bergen county.
Mr. Turner stated that Mr.. Brady
is planning the erection of a large
building to the rear of the present
| Paragon Studio for the building of
properties and scenery for New York
Productions.
1t is now planned to hold a dinner
at Cella's Park Hotel, in the near
future, at which time William Brady
will place before the diners, his plans
and suggestions. Arrangements are
being made to broadcast the speeches
by radio.
Already more than two hundred
fifty carpenters and stage hands are
employed at the studios and outside
sets, and Monday the Cosmopolitan
| Productions will begin work at the
Paragon Studio, the Potash and Perl
mutter Company, sharing the Univer-
sal Studio with Inspiration Films, Inc.
e. H. Griffith was more than
pleased with the work of Fire Chief
Creamer and Assistant Chief Hoebel,
Saturday night, when they saved his
company hundreds of dollars, in pre-
venting the spread of fire, which had
been started for Seena Owen and Lio-
mel Barrymore's production, "Unseeing
| Eyes"
The action of the Mayor and Coun-
Gil, in granting permission to Inspira-
ton to erect platform on the Crystal
Lake property is an example of the
cooperation that is needed to re-estab-
lish Fort Lee as the worlds greatest
moving picture center.
William A. Brady says it can be
done and every one can help with
everything but money. In few weeks
big meeting is TO be held-the exact
date of which is to be announced later