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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
SELLING "TIPS" FOR DEALERS IN MOTION PICTURE PLAYERS
New Motion Picture Theatres, Hotels and Restaurants in Various Sections of the Country That
Will Require Orchestrions, Automatic Pianos and Other Musical Equipment.
Opportunities to make sales of automatic pianos
and orchestrions will be found in this column by
piano dealers desirous of developing these pros-
pects in the respective localities mentioned:
Arizona.
Babbitt Brothers are planning to erect a new moving
picture theatre at Flagstaff.
California.
Rankin's Hall, at Blue Lakes, has been converted into a
moving picture theatre by B. L. White.
The York Theatre, at Twenty-fourth and Bryant streets,
San Francisco, has been reopened by Hannell & Matthews.
C. R. Beilby is planning to erect a new moving picture
theatre at Wheatland.
A new theatre is being erected at Porterville by Edward
Howell.
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The Columbia Theatre, a new moving picture theatre,
will be opened on Tenth street, Oakland, by Fest & Siedell.
F. H. Smith is planning to open a new moving picture
theatre at Lindsay.
A new moving picture theatre has been opened on Broad-
way, Oakland, which has been named the Imperial.
The Royal Theatre Co. is planning to erect a new $60,-
000 moving picture theatre on California street, San
Francisco.
A. Delluchi and E. Fontana have purchased the Bell
Theatre at Stockton.
Connecticut.
The Paragon Picture Corporation is planning to con-
vert the first floor of the Weisman building on Church
street, Naugatuck, into a moving picture theatre.
Florida.
P. W. Hutchinson and T. C. Cashen, Jr., have taken
over the Republic Theatre at Jacksonville.
Illinois.
A new moving picture show has been opened in the
Reisch building at Middletown by E. H. Krenz.
Arthur Simons and W. VV. Watts are planning to erect a
new moving picture theatre on the site of their old Rex
Theatre, in Petersburg, which was recently destroyed by
fire.
Manager Brownie Linton is planning to open the new
Olytnpia Theatre at Tuscalo shortly.
A new moving picture theatre has been opened at Steger
Hall, Steger, by W. Rutowsky.
Indiana.
Walter Kyle and Hugh Rapp have leased the opera house
at Ladoga and will operate it as a moving picture theatre.
The I. O. O. F. are planning to erect a new moving pic-
ture theatre at Thorntown.
Luna Amusement Co., Lafayette; $50,000; opera houses,
theatres; Herbert H. Johnson, John H. Johnson, Edna G.
Johnson, incorporators.
The New Albany Amusement Co., of New Albany, has
purchased the Grand Theatre at that place.
Dan and William David are planning to open a new
moving picture theatre in Nashville.
Iowa.
A new moving picture theatre has been opened at Stacy-
ville by Heyzog Brothers.
Kentucky.
The Capitol Theatre Co., of Louisville, has been incor-
porated with a-capital stock of $3,000. The incorporators
are Fred J. Dolle, Dennis H. Long, and Henry Reiss.
A new moving picture theatre has been opened at Corbin
by W. W. Sawyers and Jess Mershon.
George Mann is preparing to erect a new moving picture
theatre at Bardstown.
Louisiana.
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The Central Amusement Co. has just opened its new
Happy Hour Theatre in New Orleans.
The new Empire moving picture theatre at 1010 Canal
street, New Orleans, has just been opened.
Michigan.
Harry Rockwell is converting a store property at Alma
into a moving picture theatre.
A $30,000 moving picture theatre will be erected at Mon-
roe by Charles E. Kirby.
A new $7,500 opera house will be erected shortly at
Whitehall.
Minnesota.
Andres Brothers & Lindren are planning to erect a new
moving picture theatre in St. Paul.
Edward A. Campbell has just opened a new moving pic-
ture theatre at Minneapolis, which will be known as the
Holmes.
Missouri.
Dr. L. L. Lathan has opened a new moving picture thea-
tre at Lathan.
Turpin & Hunkin wil] be in charge of the new moving
picture theatre which will be erected at Clinton.
Nebraska.
George Devlin has opened a new moving picture thea-
tre at McLean.
Mrs Viola Brown, of O'Neill, is planning to erect a new
moving picture theatre at that place.
Thomas Verba is planning to open a new moving picture
theatre in the Hein building at Howells.
A new §20,000 moving picture theatre will be erected
at Chadron by James W. Pace.
W. M Busey, of Bridgeport, is planning to erect a $15,-
000 moving picture theatre at that place.
New Jersey.
The M. & S. Amusement Co. is planning to erect a
$100,000 moving picture theatre in Newark
A new $50,000 moving picture theatre will be erected at
Fulton and Jackson avenues, Jersey City, by the Mertens
Amusement Co.
New York.
The Paragon Theatre Corporation will erect a $14,000
moving picture theatre at Beacon.
Ohman Brothers have opened their $20,000 moving pic-
ture theatre at Lyons.
A new moving picture theatre will be erected at New-
burgh by the Paragon Theatre Corporation.
The Wardin Realty Co. is haying plans prepared for the
erection of a new $35,000 moving picture theatre in New
York City.
North Dakota.
A. H. Yeoman, of Devil's Lake, is planning to open
a new moving picture theatre at Crary.
A building at Pettibone will be remodeled into an opera
house.
Ohio.
The Central Building Co. is erecting a new $150,000
moving picture theatre at Dayton.
Philip Chakers has converted the opera house at Me-
chanicsburg into a moving picture theatre.
The Mill & High Theatre Co., which was recently incor-
porated at Akron, with a capital stock of $100,000, and of
which C. T. Grant was one of the incorporators, will prob-
ably erect a new moving picture theatre soon.
The Grand Theatre and Amusement Co., Mansfield; $60,-
000; Paul E. Sturgis, incorporator.
Family Amusement Co., Cleveland; $10,000; Dorr E.
Warner, incorporator.
Oregon.
C. C. Smith will erect a new moving picture theatre in
Dalles.
A new moving picture theatre will be erected in the
Alisky block at Third and Morrison streets, Portland, and
will be operated by J. G. Fleishman.
South Dakota.
The Nace Theatre Co. has leased the opera house at
Volin and will operate it as a moving picture house.
Tennessee.
A new $5,000 moving picture theatre will be erected on
East Ninth street, Chattanooga, by Thomas S. Wilcox.
Texas.
A new $10,500 moving picture theatre will be erected at
Hereford for C. H. Dyar.
A. Martini will erect a new moving picture theatre at
2114 Market street, Galveston.
The Queen, a new moving picture theatre, has been
opened at Brownsville by Andrew Pappas.
Buckingham & Fought have opened a new moving picture
theatre at Cuero, known as the Royal.
J. J. O'Malley is erecting a new theatre at Abiline.
Vermont.
A company, of which John E. Leland is a member, will
erect a $40,000 moving picture theatre at Montpelier.
Virginia.
Theatres, Inc., Norfolk; $15,000; Jake Wells, Otto
Wells, incorporators.
Norwood Hotel Co., Inc., Norfolk; $10,000; C. P. Swar-
ingen, G. B. Swaringen, incorporators.
Mr. Rowland has just opened the Alabama, a new mov-
ing picture theatre at Alexandria.
Washington, D. C.
Mr. Clark has opened up the Elite Theatre on Fourteenth
street, Northwest.
Washington.
Samuel Sampson has opened a new moving picture thea-
tre at Stevenson.
Wisconsin.
R. B. Guyette is planning to erect a new moving picture
theatre at Sheboygan Falls.
A new $70,000 moving picture theatre will be erected at
Sturgeon Bay by Louis P. Nebel & Son.
Roscoe Anear and Thomas Bird are planning to erect
a new moving picture theatre at Richland Center.
A new opera house will be erected at Muscoda by Fred
Paulick.
Wyoming.
Mrs. Less Mote is erecting a new theatre at Riverton.
PATENTS AUTOMATIC TUNE-SHEET.
(Special to The Review.)
WASHINGTON, D. C , March 13.—James John
Walker, London, Eng., was last week granted
Patent No. 1,173,232 for a tune-sheet for auto-
matic musical instruments, the playing of which is
controlled by such a sheet traveling over a tracker
board having ports operatively connected with the
respective note-sounding motors, and it has for its
object to provide improved means by which the
said tune-sheet can be automatically maintained
in, or returned to, its proper position for insuring
register between its respective rows of note slots
or perforations and the tracker board ports.
AMERICAN PLAYER=PIANO CO. MOVES.
The American Player-Piano Co., formerly of
Champaign, 111., has moved to Jacksonville, Fla.,
where it will have improved manufacturing facili-
ties. This concern bought out the original plant
and equipment of the Johnson Piano Co., which
failed several years ago, and since that time has
been in business in Illinois.
THE COMSTOCK, CHENEY * CO,
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MANUFACTURERS
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A large supply always OH hand.
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RUDOLPH C. KOCH
MANUFACTURER OF
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Mannfactnrers of HIGH GRADE
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