Everett Butterfield (1915) 🇺🇸

Everett Butterfield, who was especially engaged by the Edison Company to portray the artistic, temperamental Raphael de Valentine in The Magic Skin, makes his picture debut in that production.

He was obtained from the cast of The Last Laugh now playing at the 39th Street theater, in which he handles the leading juvenile role.

Mr. Butterfield is a man of vast stage experience and lays claim to having interpreted more than seven hundred different roles. For six years he headed his own stock company in Washington, D. C, after nearly sixteen years of stock work in Pittsburgh, Milwaukee, Kansas City and Denver. During his career he has supported such stars as Amelia Bingham, Edward Morgan and Louis James.

He is remembered for his work in numerous traveling shows as well, among which are The Man of the Hour, Ready Money, The Misleading Lady and his present engagement with The Last Laugh.

Mr. Butterfield is a man of slender physique and peculiar adaptability. His Raphael in The Magic Skin has given him an unusual opportunity for the display of those talents which make for tense, dramatic work.

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Everett Butterfield in The Magic Skin.

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Triangle in New Brokaw Building

Five-year lease for eleventh and twelfth floors is signed — executive headquarters will be elaborately equipped.

The Triangle Film Corporation has leased for five years the eleventh and twelfth floors of the new Brokaw Building, being erected at Broadway and Forty-second street, New York, according to an announcement issued by W. M. Seligsberg, counsel for Triangle, who recently closed the deal with Brokaw Brothers. It is promised that the new quarters will be ready for occupancy about January first, when the Triangle offices will be moved from their present location in the Longacre Building.

Approximately 14,000 square feet of space will be occupied and the aggregate rental for the five-year term will reach a very large figure. The fact that the building is still under construction has enabled the builder to arrange for perfectly appointed executive headquarters. The several offices and departments will include the quarters of the executive offices, the film exchanges, several projection rooms, fireproof storage for films, an indoor motion picture studio for emergency work, a foreign department for export of films to Europe, Asia and South America, an international publicity department, ample space for a library of 25,000 pictures of players and 100,000 items of literary data, an extensive auditing and finance department and large reception rooms for the use of President Aitken and likewise of directors D. W. Griffith, Thomas H. Ince and Macklyn Sennett whenever they are in town.

One of the conditions of the lease is that there shall be no other film concerns of any sort in the building. With the acquisition of these offices, the Triangle Film Corporation simultaneously becomes one of the most extensive occupiers of office theatrical space in the country. The corporation has rented large branch headquarters in seventeen of the principal cities outside of New York and controls three model theaters — the Knickerbocker in New York, the Studebaker in Chicago, and the Chestnut Street Opera House in Philadelphia. It is constructing new studio plants at Culver City and Edendale, Los Angeles, and it is believed quite likely that another new plant will soon be started on the outskirts of New York.

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S. B. Kramer

One of the “big boys” in the film industry, S. B. Kramer, who has been manager of the World Film office in Pittsburgh for some time, arrived in town last week to take charge of the Mecca branch of the Universal Film Manufacturing Company. He fills the vacancy left by Manny Goldstein, who has been appointed assistant to General Manager of Exchanges M. H. Hoffman. Those who are familiar with Mr. Kramer’s history agree that he is the right man in the right place. He is a real hustler.

Mr. Kramer started in the film business out west, about seven years ago, with the Nebraska Film Company, which later sold out to the Mutual. He was then made manager of the Omaha and Des Moines offices for the Mutual, afterward being transferred to the Kansas City office. He left the Mutual to join the United and was made manager of the Indianapolis office. The World Film Corporation tempted Mr. Kramer with a handsome offer to take charge of the Pittsburgh office. He has done excellent work in “Smoketown.” When Mr. Hoffman made Mr. Goldstein his assistant, the first man that came to his mind was Mr. Kramer. He is bound to “make good” in his new position, and his many friends will be pleased to hear of his advancement.

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Powell Buys Large Estate.

Frank Powell, director of photoplays for the Fox Film Corporation and known throughout the world as the producer of A Fool There Was, and other noted film successes, has purchased for an unknown amount, the famous Teller Estate on Bradish avenue, Bayside Park, Bayside, Long Island. The estate includes a twelve room house and spacious grounds which are noted for their natural beauty and they will no doubt be utilized by Mr. Powell in many of the feature films he has in course of production. Mr. Powell is remodelling and furnishing the house and under his artistic direction should make his place one of the most noted in Bayside.

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Motion Pictures in the School.

The Hamilton Institute for Girls, one of the largest institutions of its kind in New York City, has installed a Power’s motion picture projecting machine and once each week the lessons are impressed by visual instruction. The use of motion pictures is designed to present scenes of history, to interest the pupils so that they will ask questions with the desire to know, to stimulate intellectual curiosity and in short to make the teaching of science and history alive and of vital interest. This school also has the use of all slides prepared by the Department of Visual Instruction of the State Educational Department at Albany, N. Y.

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Ince Likes Billie Burke’s Play.

Having completed her first photoplay at the Ince-Triangle studio in Los Angeles, Billie Burke has returned to New York to begin rehearsals of the new stage play in which she will be managed by her husband, F. Zeigfeld, Jr. [Florenz Ziegfeld] Miss Burke’s contribution to the Triangle plays is declared by Director Ince [Thomas H. Ince] to be one of the best dramas he has ever produced. In a story of Scottish locale and atmosphere Miss Burke was supported by William H. Thompson and Jack Standing.

Collection: Moving Picture World, October 1915