Show 4 Movies Move T Wall Tal al Street P THE lIE bankers of New Ne' York City grou grouped d in mass massand massand slow to and known as asT a Wall street arc are proverbially seek seck investment in in new fields and it is not until the Ibe fields have hn e been proven both profitable and permanent that ordinarily the barriers are arc thrown down n Kock- Kock knock ing at the door of Wall raI street has hus proven pro a cold and anu i thankless task tak to t many an an- al infant industry which has ha been een compelled to lift itself up by its own boot bot straps until il of oC sufficient size strength and importance tomae tomake to tomake make its knocking heard beard Eventually the doors may be mae about the swung wide open but before this is brought barricades of conservatism must mut be broken down Ther The r Wall Wail al street banker is a a. conservative e who much prefers prefers pre pre- prefers fers to bear Le and bull bul those things thing he lIe has hns than fly to others other that ho he kno knows s not of Until the last Jast few years oil oi companies were looked upon a as something quite qute apart from that with which these bankers should L intimately I- I associate 1 The 1 I. I com coin f I panic male matte maKe monc jinyu J UC L LUl mi II LI approved business busness manner but because there was a chance in development work the banker was Skeptical J and the the conservative of twenty five years ago would A as soon have haye cut off his las right hand as to recommend mend an investment in an oil oi company It I was the same with T the automobile industry in its is inception It seemed a mushroom growth lacking the tho essential clement of stability from the hankin banking standpoint Perhaps it i was wasa wasn a n fad that the people would soon tire of Perhaps some some- tl tiling jg else would bo ho invented to take its is place Hence it was was a a. number of years r before the automobile industry in- in in in- received substantial aid from Wall Vall street The eno enormous profits and tried time tie tred stability of oil oi and I automobiles however ultimately proved pr an nn open I sesame to all nI the fortified vaults an and barricaded pessi pessimism pessi- pessi of bankers er everywhere e pessi-j pessi Now o it seems that the motion picture business is to tobe tobe be Le invited in in out of the cold cola and thid be made warm wan wa an and I comfortable with such hospitable obeisance and low JOW salaams as ns a ii hitherto deaf leaf and tardy gatekeeper can cn I devise Wall street has awakened to the possibilities of the amusement field fied and is giving the the great geat movie mo I I industry i financial backing The Famous heavy y Players Players- V T r 1 n n 1 sLi 11 1 4 I. I h. h TIT 11 Of kt f. f T I V 1 TT O I J. J y J V VIA j y nc ly LUlU iwu UJ y I LUC w U v 7 is being provided with of new capital by Kuhn Loeb Loch Co while the DuPonts s and the Chase I bank interests have entered the n pictures picures cor cor- The enormous resources of the amusement field are indicated by the Wall aJ Str Street t Journal which informs us that Gross revenues of or picture theatres In the country are estimated at this year ear They were In 1915 ISiS comparing comparing comparing- fao favorably ra 1 with wih rss of or thirteen leading rubber companies companies against against but in 1907 In this country there are arc picture theatres with wih scats seats nearl nearly every town of or 1000 population lon hayIng hay hav- Ing nl at least one ono theatre Twelve hundred new ne houses are being built buit at a cost of or Good theatres cost a seat to build at present prices so that at a conservative con con- calculation of or 00 a 3 seat scat the Investment In In motion mcton picture theatre totals about All other countries of ot the world now now- have about theatres an indication of ot tho expansion possibilities of ot the Industry considering tho the fact that made American mado films Ims now predominate predominate pre pre- dominate both here and in foreign lands Consumption of ot positive films is aver averaging ab ut 10 feet a a week against feet In 19 1913 Annual sales of or the two largest larest makers of projecting films have Increased from 2000 TO TIl 1 1912 to this year ear Having flaring Ja ing broken down the thc barriers barrier of the bankers the motion picture industry is destined to take on such added glories as abundance of capital and business usines brains may develop Results may ny be b witnessed in in the near future in bigger and better theatres ner beter improved cd picures pictures wider wier inclusion on of popular features and ad greater geter great great- get get- er or conveniences for patrons It I is regarded as the thc dawning of a new era for era for the I picture business |