The evening world. Newspaper, January 8, 1916, Page 10

inal idea had been Edison's, and in i Pathe had recognized the SE TS Sy hate erent cA al i a SLIPPERS TH RATE, HE HERS ~ ALM TRIUMPHS ~—AREWORLD-WIDE Their iin -boek Factories and Studios Established in Many Countries. BEGAN’ WITH _ $2,000. Record of French Motion Pic- ture Pioneers Reads Like a Romance. ‘The romance of @ great business often exceeds imagination and prover more interesting than fiction. The hesitating beginning, the slow and stumbling progress, the costly mis- takes, the various ailments which so often prove fatal to an infant Indus- try do not make an impression upon the mind of a casual observer. Remembering how much the motion picture business, now ranking fifth in importance of all industries of the United States, owes to the house of | Pathe, a representative of The Eve- ning World during a recent trip to France made a visit to several of the huge factories and studios of that gfeat international organization Located on the Boulevard des Ital fens are the head offices of Pathe Freres in a building which by its parren Byli| aguin and again a} Ke of programme was av Deauty and permanent character }oasits, ‘To rerun was & vi | might well be a great art museum or Government offices. Here alone in times of peace are housed some germ of great things. small store and placed wi of Men About Whom Patrons of the Movies Have Heard. Hi im PRESIDENT OF 4LL THE PATHES COMPANIES, He rented a those machines. venture Profitable, but was handi by the fact that there was but picture to @ machine, To make n more ma- them in eigh From week to he ures in rot. four hundred employees, a small por- lang then and there was born the mod tion of the army of nearly, 10,000'ern fim exchange idea scattered all over the world who draw With his profits he purchased a - elope motion picture camera of the theie'walaries in Pathe envelopes. In virst to ba made—und started mak | CASHIER. es, the birthplace of the mo- ; ing his own pictures, His subje VICE Pree tion picture industry and the city|were —primitive—a man running PATE’ ERCMANGH which saw the early struggles of | chic ens teedlag cattle grazing and | Gasuier, and play the brothers Pathe, are several of | ut he was developing his | progucer ect the tak- their factories and studios, covering | w was the first acted story to be put an area of 28,000 square metres and as were in short lengths, ten.|uvon ‘the screen and’ from it Shel employing over seventeen hundred rien fest wt a time, but the) modern photoplay has developed. | people, Here are colored by the |instuid of imprisning chem inne | Max Linder jumped to fame and ‘ ‘fortune and is st considered ie Pathe process those beautiful pic- | ox heiped Ha took | use pantauine comedians it she tures of which the “Beloved Vaga-/ his films in his pockets and carried| world, At the outbreak of the wat bond” is such an excellent and re- cent example, In these factories 1s also produced raw film stock amount- ing to over 300,000 metres a day, a quantity which makes Pathe one of the principal sources of raw film material in the world, Other great | to studios are located in Montreuil-sur- Bots and Nice, and in them daily, be- fore the war, met the greatest actors and actresses of France, At Join- ville-le-Pont is another factory with @ pay roll of 1,100 persons, where films are developed, edited, printed and then forwarded to all parts of the world. In Paris iy still another, where are manufactured cameras und accessories, employin early a thou- sand persons, Remembering that other large factories are located in England, Russia, Italy, the United tates and other countries, as are studios and selling organizations, one finds it difficult to believe that this great organization is ly about twenty years old and represents the growth of an idea in the minds of two men, poor of pocket but large of vision, Charles and Emile Pathe, with two ether Srothers, put all their savings to @ business which then was but Mere idea. The combined capital amounted to but $2,000, and after only three weeks tho o two brothers, horrified by their rashness, withdrew taking their money with them. ‘Messrs. Emile and Charles, who held true to their faith and stuck to their guns, to-day draw $100,000 per year ‘apiece in salaries alone, | The original motion picture was imprisoned in a wooden cabinet where one was privileged by depositing a Coin to see a succession of tiny photos tumbling over one another and giving the semblance of life action. The \ them (traveilii please) to London, ping out upon the screen and that that story would possess a far wide and for that reason his work | a” iiaportant ing of tho picture These embryonic fg third class, if and it | his $4 per day had grown to $10,000 and sold them there. By degrees his| irector, is to-day, Viee Prosihent aed films lengthened and his market| general ‘manager of the Pathe Amer | strengthened, but for weary months | {can interests, he was his own camera man, ship-| Still another great idea came to! clerk, manufacturer, demon the when he considered the Strator and salesman. The idea came ty of putting news into mo- him that a story could be worked ‘This proved pr and the day there i peal than the simple little s of] Pathe News in the United everyday life which he had been| Pathe Gazette in Great Bri filming. He employed Max Lihder,| Pathe Journal in France, the Pathe @ young actor, for $4 a day to Glornalo in Italy and still another out_a crude scenario, and Louis J.! with a jaw-breaking name in Russia BROADWAY Theatre BROADWAY AT 41ST STREET ET 1ST PERFORMANCE 10:30 A. M. ENGAGEMENT EXTENDED ALL NEXT WEEK JESSE L. LASKY presents GERALDINE FARRAR IN THE PARAMOUNT PICTURE “TEMPTATION” MEE: lp hat short picture | THE EVENING WORLD, SATURDAY, NEW SCREEN FEATURES STAR FILM FAVORI TES : FIRST EPISODE OF NEW SERIAL, “MARY PAGE,” IS TO BE RELEASED JAN. 24. =) Jan, 24 hag been wet by the Essanay y the first of Mary bh Henry » are to be! s of fifteen attorney for the defense in her trial, | When the story opens Mary Page is appearing in the dress rehearsal of a Broadway production. lt is her first big part. After the final rehearsal Pollock, who is backing the produc- tion, forces his Into her dressing room. Philip Langdon (Mr. W: thall), who has called to congratu ne mpany goes to a hotel for a banquet. Pol- lock lures Mary into a private dining room and again attempts to force his attentions upon her. She draws the revolver, then loses control of herself, nembering nothing more. H Langdon, who has started in search | of Mary, hears sounds of a shot and breaks into the room. There he finds |Mary, unconscious beside Pollock, who is dead with a bullet in his | from the revolver which lies} beside Mary | The guests rush in and find Lang- }don with the revolver in his hand, | stooping over the victim. ‘They seize him as the murderer. In the excite-| » Mary disappears sodes that follow take up the n the life of Mary rcused of the murder| nocence 1s estab- Langdon's i PICTU RES AT STRAND AND PLAZA THEATRES, | Theatre will pre lark in a photo-drama “M 1 Men,’ Madeleine tte Ryley. The} pporting cast includes Ada Deaves, Xt aggie Hatloway Fisher, Helen Dahi Marshall Neiland, , Clarence Handy: | Conville and William Other features will be alt travel and war pictures and | sical programme, » first half of the week the | In Robert McKey nin be Olga What People Say?" ‘There will be vaude ville throughout the week tb ture will and Edn Y GREEN Vvulged to- 0 of love| President of Film Co } "S| poration and in it is portrayed the m f ‘To insure the success of “The Gir ( Dave Pollock, the crime of whioh| “Md the Game he said, “a sum of Mary Page (Edna Mayo) is acct money slightly in excess of $500,000 I Henry Waltha}i plays the pat , Mary Page's sweetheart, who ts the . hadi been acnandid. Witife ture stars William Fox engages to appear in his Game,’ All of the action 1a n'a tres pictures. ane cualy large ale The Siz ilm Corporation at its large stud y : . . in Lea canealen is prod We are saying nothing more about the remarkable di- and the Game. (A sy whole trains written | well known to n thousands « | fearle: a towering ¢ Will & WATCH FOR THE GREAT ESSANAY SERIES “The Strange Case of MARY PAGE” WITH-— Henry Walthall First Release January 24th ! Ask Your Favorite Theatre to Show It. re pe nen epee JANUARY 8, 1916. BY wm Fox MANY THRILLING FEATS MARK THE “GIRL AND THE GAME." Tatereeting facts cone r Freuler, William Fox Invites You ONE MILLION PERSONS pay their way into the motion picture houses of Greater New York every day in the year. ONE-FOURTH of these persons--250,000 persons every see WILLIAM FOX FEATURE FILMS. day Every day between 300 and 350 different theatres in the Greater City rent from the Fox Film Corporation and ex- hibit to YOU the William Fox pictures. This tremendous DEMAND is based upon TWO things: 1. The individuality and tremendous excellence of William Fox picture productions. COHN rR FREUCERO RRS! MUTUAL FILM COR POR ATION 2. The wonderful popularity of the great pic- rection and the men who perform this direction. about that and do not need to be told. uilroad station was erected and t 6 assumed such ignal Station & metables of a trais Director McGowan daily You know We are saying nothing more about the superlative settings and the great amounts of money spent on each and every picture. You SEE the William Fox pictures all the time and do not have to be told about these points. ion of Helen Holmes to play he leading role in ‘The made bec To leap from ¢ To ask you the five million people in Greater New York to go into the picture theatres every time you see a William Fox picture advertised or announced is really superfluous. ng engine be xploits re this quality Miss He len Holn Kable di vosseeses in A re cree Most of you do that, as the box office receipts of hun- dreds of theatres reveal, without being asked. So what we intend doing is merely to caution you to NEVER MISS SEEING A SINGLE WILLIAM FOX FEATURE FILM in any week of 1916. Last year the Fox pictures were the spectacular wonders of the picture business, and other producers were following him month after month. In 1916 William Fox already has spent hundreds of thou- sands of dollars and made his plans months in advance to pro- duce for you" the people who pay and make his productions possible each and every week the most astonishing series of intensely dramatic and thoroughly human pictures ever made before since the picture industry became worthy of recognition. If a man, woman or child in Greater New York (or any- where else in America) misses seeing the William Fox weekly features in 1916 from the beginning to the end of the year, he will be subjecting himself to disappointments such as no happy-minded, care-free American normally cares to invite. a Mayo If we did not mean and FEEL this in all seriousness there would be little or no reason at all for talking to you at this length at the very beginning of the bustling New Year, ROMO ts INS Mea RMA FOX FILM CORPORATION