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MOTION PICTURE
BUSINESS IN
THE NORTHLAND
The following interesting article is
taken from the Moving Picture World
of the Dec. 30th issue and pertains to
two of the leading moving picture
men of Alaska. The article appears
under a Seattle date line:
The picture theatres of northwest
ern and central Alaska have the best
service of any on the continent! We
are used to hearing exhibitors boost
their own shows in a mild sort of way,
but that statement did take away
our breath, especially in view of the
fact that we have heard so many ru
more of the difficulty of getting films
into those frozen towns of the north,
and also considering that the speaker
was a man who usually means exactly
what he says. It was W. F. Code,
'of the Alaska Dream theatre, Nome,
Alaska. He went on to prove his
statement:
“We have Paramount, Triangle,
Fox, Metro, World, Pathe, Big Four
and Mutual Masterpieces; and we
change every night,” said Mr. Code.
“ ‘Civilization’ was put on in Fair
banks, Alaska, before it was in Spo
kane, Washington.”
“But how can they do it?”
“Why, on the last boat that left
here for northern Alaska I sent 1,000
reels, and they won’t come back until
spring. You see, A. R. Thorne, A. E.
Lathrop and I have formed a com
bine called the Alaska Feature Film
company. Mr. Lathrop owns theatres
in Anchorage, Seward, Valdez and
Cordova. Mr. Thorne owns the
Thorne in Fairbanks. We formed the
film company for the primary purpose
of getting films for ourselves, but we
do rent them to the few other houses
in our territory. Now we get? the
films we want. If we can’t rent them
we buy them, but we seldom ever have
to do that. The exchange manager
who wouldn’t begin to talk business
with us when we wanted two or three
features to take to Alaska for the
winter finds his subject intensely in
teresting when he learns we are ask
ing for 25 or 50 features now. Of
course, we don’t have to lay in such
a supply in summer. We have regu
lar boat service then.”
But even with this arrangement, I
how can you make an every night
change a paying propositon? Nome
is a small town, isn’t it?”
“Yes there are only 2,500 people
there in summer and less in winter,
but I have always gone Into the ad
vertising game like a circus manager.
I’ve just pulled them out of their
homes and they’ve got the habit now.
You could bet your last dollar on at
least 50, perhaps 60, seats being occu
pied by the same people every night.
“You see, I haven’t any competitors
now. There used to be some, but I
put them out of business with my
change every night. Since then I’ve
found that my little theatre with its
250 seats is not large enough, so I’m
building a 600 capacity house.”
“Where are some of the theatres lo
cated that don’t belong to you or your
partners?"
“There’s one here at St. Michaels,”
he said, pointing out the town on the
map. “St. Michaels is an army post,
and the picture show is at the post
exchange. Then there’s another at
Candle, which is farther north than
any other picture show in the world.
Candle is 204 miles northeast of
Nome, and it is between the two
towns that the famous Alaska sweep
stakes are run by dog teams. All the
film carried to Candle in the winter
goes by dog train. There are just
about 150 people in the town and the
show is run by some merchants who
don’t care whether they make any
money on it or not. What they want
is a picture show twice a week, and
they are going to have it.
“They wanted to run Tillie’s Punc
tured Romance’ this Christmas and I
wanted to send the picture to another
town, so I put what I considered a
prohibitive price on it; but they took
it anyhow, and in order not to lose
money on it they are going to ask
$2.50 and $5.00 a seat. And they’ll
get it, too. Once when they were run
ning the same show for three consec
utive nights I asked them what
their receipts were for the first night.
“Seventy-nine dollars and seventy
five cents,” answered the manager.
‘And for the second night,’ I contin
ued. ‘The same amount.’ ‘And for
the third night?’ ‘The same amount.’
‘The same every night?’ ‘Exactly,’
he answered. ‘But you charge $1 for
adults and 50 cents for children.
Where did you get the 75 cents?’
“ ‘Well,’ he replied, ‘Mrs. Johnson
brought her two months old baby
with her, and I charged her two bits
for him.’ ”
“What is the regular admission
price in Alaska?” Mr. Code was
asked.
Just then Mr. Code glanced across
the desk to where W. D. Gross was
vigorously making crosses at the end
of a letter.
“What are all the crosses for,
Gross?” he asked.
“They are kisses for the boy,” an
swered Gross, “I told her to give him
ten for me.”
“Mr. Gross has a corner on the bus
iness in southeastern Alaska,” ex
plained Mr. Code. “Get him to tell
you about it there.”
It was with difficulty that we final
ly got Mr. Gross interested in thea
tres. His mind was back in Juneau
with “the boy.” He lives the^ all
year, the winters being scarcely any
colder than in Seattle. His presence
in this city nov is explained simply
as a business trip. Mr. Code, on the
other hand, always spends the winters
here, on account of the severe win
ters in Nome.
witn Juneau an open port tne year
around, and .several hundred miles
nearer Seattle than Nome, Mr. Gross
doesn’t find it necessary to buy or rent
films in the quantities that Mr. Code
and his associates do, but he does
have some trouble getting them just
the same. He has been running
World and Metro in his eight houses,
and he has just signed for the new
Mary Pickford features and for Bil
lie Burke’s' “Peggy.” He is also ma
neuvering for Triangle. His houses !
are situated in Juneau, Douglas, !
Haines, Skagway, Petersburg, Sitka, I
Ketchikan and Wrangell.
Mr. Gross’ Coliseum in Juneau seats
1,000, is new, and is the finest theatre
in Alaska. There is even an incline
instead of steps leading to the bal
cony, and the finishing touch, accord
ing to Mr. Gross, is the pair of ca
nary birds that begin to sing as soon
as the fountain begins to run and the
music to play, and they never stop un
til all the lights are out for the night.
He is not very enthusiastic about his
balcony, though. In spite of the fact
that it is architecturally well planned
for a theatre he says that no one ex
cept natives will go up there, even if
they- have to stand and wait below.
Mr. Code came forward with an ex
planation for that, however.
“It s because the natives go up
there, Gross,” he said. “Why before
I had a balcony in my theatre, when
the natives used to sit in the last few
rows the people would hold their nos
es as they passed. You Know they
wear those oilskins, and the smell is
something awful. Now I send the na
tives up in the gallery and fan per
fume in the front of the house, while
a big suction fan draws all the bad
air and smells out at the back. In my
new theatre I am having built a small
raised balcony at one end of the reg
ular balcony with a separate entrance
to it from the outside. I am going to
send the natives up there.”
Having told' us what they could of
the business of today these two pio
neers became reminiscent. Mr. Gross
has been in Alaska 19 years, going
first to Dawson. He preceded Mr.
Code by two years, but the latter
beat him into the motion picture field,
having been an exhibitor for nine
years. He began, he said, when
Miles Brothers, the first exchange on
the coast, were operating in San
Francisco.
“Those were the days," he explain
ed, “when you had to buy a film out
right, and pay from $125 to $176 for
it. And by the time you had spent six
or seven hundred dollars getting your
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Honor Roll For December.
Helen Harmon. 95
Clarence Thatcher . 92
Loretta Kobely . 91
Margarett Simonson . 89
Upper Grades. ^
Vera Kimball. 96
Selma Simonson . 93
Vera Boynton . 93
Helen Chovin . 92
Helen Tiffany . 91
Fay Murray . 91
Selby Seeley .frz. 91
A high school meeting was held
Monday and new officers for this se
mester were elected:
President, Harriet Maltby.
Vice-President, Gerald Arbuckle.
Secretary-Treasurer, Esther Denton.
The high school girls’ basketball
team has been organized and will play
against the Commission girls’ team on
Feb. 2, at the Temple Auditorium.
There will be a banquet and dance af
terwards for the players and a few of
their friends will be invited.
The school children are all anxiously
waiting for the 29th to come as the
new school will be ready for occupan
cy then.
The girls of the fifth and sixth
grades have organized a basketball
team and call themselves the “Sham
rocks.”
The children of the second grade
have finished their readers.
The eighth grade held an election
and the following officers were elect
ed:
President, Albert Denton.
Vice-President, Chester Bartholf.
Secretary, Annie Park.
Treasurer, Vera Boynton.
Seargeant-at-arms, Ralph Bartholf.
The exercises given by those from
Misses Reat and Burnett’s rooms were
very good and were enjoyed by all who
attended the Parent-Teachers’ meet
ing. Dr. Simpson, the oculist, gave
the address of the meeting.
The eighth graders are reaflirig
“The Man Without a Country,” along
with their history.
The seventh and eighth grades have
asked the high school students to be
their guests at a dancing praty in the
near future.
The following pupils of Miss Bur
nett’s room have not been absent or
tardy since school began: Wells Er
vin, Alice Hales, Helen Kiel, Decema
Kimball, Myrtle Wendler.
Tuesday, the 26th, will be the
“House Warming” in the new school
house under the auspices of the Par
ent-Teachers’ Association. The pro
ceeds to be used for playground equip
ment, etc.
show, even though you did charge $1
and $1.50 admission, you didn’t make
anything on it. Unless a man hid
some other source of income in those
days he soon went broke in the pic
lure business.”
ANNOUNCEMENT.
The auditorium of the Alaska La
bor Temple may be rented for social
affairs and entertainment. Make your
bookings now at office in Labor Tem
ple.
Bread, Pies, Cakes, all the best at
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FRATERNAL ORDERS.
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Regular meeting every Wed
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Moose hall. Initiations twice
each month.
BILL’S CLUB.
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EAGLES CLUB
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This Bank has always complied strictly with
both the letter and the spirit of those laws. We
feel that the closer we adhere to the Law the
better it will be for our depositors. We make
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