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Show r I ' "Victory" Scores With H Patrons of the Screen I ' ' ' The Spectacular Naval Photo I play Shcrwing Our Ships and Sailor? Rouses EuthusiasmJ Sudden Fortunei RivallJnJ Those ol Pitta burgh end Nome Won By Motion Pio- ture Producers. The Important Part Now Ployed in the Industry by the State I I Rights Exploitation of Features. h - ' "A'ictory," the spectacular naval photo r ' play is accorded a rousing reception by lirs" crowds at every performance j where It ii shown. This stirrinp patri- j , otn- film was produced with the aid and permission of the United States Navy , 1 lepnrtmi nt and I'iU the story of hor I Lieut Richard Ward, of the United j States Navy, thwarted nn intrigue of i conspirators in a Latin-American republic repub-lic who planned to blow up the S. S. ' Utah aad were prevented by the timely aid and activity of Mis Helen Gordon, j the daughter of ihe United States Min ,j iatsr, and the betrothed of Lieut. Rich- J a d SV ard. the Uero. Battleships, hydroplanes, "United Stat. Marines, BecrCtarj Daniels him-Belf, him-Belf, and a clever company Of Amerl- i can and European silent players com- i bineii to make ss complete a drama of H love and war based ou an international I episode, as cue could wish for. j "Victory" is tin- mot important mul- i liple reel feature ever placed on a t t;tate rights basis. Its success wherever i shown lias broueht a flood of inquiries i for territory still open. It is handled by J I'arkcr Read nnd 0. A Willat, I tw, of ibe most enterprising producers j iq the motion picture Belli I a II The rei?ent siieees of "Arizona" as a ' 9tute rights feature has caused stories H of nu t. leu wealth in Ihe motion picture , i .H business to i vjie as numerous as ihose v hi. ii -.'.ere heard during the de- 1 velopmeui of the steel industry in Pitts-' 1 burg or m the early days of Nome Cer- i tain it is that the wonderful growth in h popular faror of pictures has resnlted jH in fortunes for those who hae been I alert to the po&sibUitles awaiting on( every hand Formerly the big money existed in", B starting a company to make pictures as, ( H among many others! did Siegmund Lubin. who a few years ago kept n little optical Mture in Philadelphia and now is a multimillionaire mul-timillionaire whose name is n yvnouyra for all that is high i lass in pictures. .1 But now those who would rub Alludin s lamp are doing it by securing what is known aa "State Rii;;.i-," which simply means that they buy the exclusive right it to market a successful feature picture . throughout the state in which they live. jH A curious fact is that most of the men ' who have been successful in this field have had neither theatrical nor nmnse- ment business training, but are men who hare been successful iu other lines of busings and who have brought to brarj that In liness acumen Which has alreadyj stood them in BUCh good stead. r I I JOB WELCH (Warner's Features) i ondition- have chanced very ma- H terlally this Fall Where formerly all piilnri-i were market. -1 ihrouh establish..,! estab-lish..,! channels, and what was known-as a eh.?..--.! market r te.J, today the situ- at ion is that a feature picture of merit nnls a ready acceptance in every quar-tcr quar-tcr and the demand exceeds the supply. H William Garwood, Arthur Cadwall and Joseph I.a.isbcrg of the Majestic Mo- 1 tiou I'i. ture Co., made a flying trip to HM San Diego lasl week, on the occasion of IH the Cabrille lay Celebration Inter- . sling views of the "historical parade w.-re obtained which a ill be later used J as material in a photoplay. -H a Leonora rou Ottlnger Is n recent ad-ditlon ad-ditlon to tin- Universale Facitic Ooast Company. She j to uppeur In second ida and heavies in thi Lawrence-v ic- H ter releases Miss von uttinKer is a ijB beautiful woman and a fiuishcl BCtfj M. She appeared in the role of Baroness Re- viindil m Zangwill'a fumoos success, JH "The Melting Pot." |