Leon J. Bamberger (1915) 🇺🇸

Leon J. Bamberger, who has been acting as special representative for the World Film Corporation since September 1st, and who during this time has done extensive work for the company in Buffalo, Cleveland, Indianapolis and Pittsburgh, has been appointed assistant to C. R. Seelye, director of sales, and will in the future remain in the New York executive offices. His work for the most part will be along educational lines, viz., instructing the various managers and salesmen of the organization in new methods of renting films and showing them how they can increase their selling power.

Mr. Bamberger is very well known in local film circles, even though most of his time has been spent in cities far removed from New York. Before his connection with the World Film Corporation he managed the Peerless Film & Supply Company in Indianapolis; prior to that he managed the booking department of the Kinemacolor Company of America at their Chicago office; was assistant manager of the Mutual Film Corporation in Indianapolis and their manager in Buffalo. Mr. Bamberger first entered the film field as assistant to Robert Lieber of the H. Lieber Co. and General Film Co., Indianapolis. That was five years ago, and today Mr. Bamberger is still a very young man, having just passed his twenty-sixth milestone last week. He has been the recipient of several flattering offers in the last month, all of which he has politely refused to consider, as he firmly believes that the company with which he is now affiliated has an exceptionally bright future, and he is a staunch admirer of Lewis J. Selznick, vice president and general manager, whom he considers the “king bee” of the motion picture industry.

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“Retrieving the Past”

Warner’s Features to release three-reel feature of unusually fine action and detail.

Reviewed by Margaret I. MacDonald.

Founded on a story that is simple in outline, but interesting withal, Retrieving the Past, released by Warner’s Features under the A. C. A. D. brand, attracts attention chiefly through the splendid manner in which it has been staged and enacted. It is not a production in which thrills predominate, but it is one which displays a wealth of legitimate dramatic action presented in the most finished style. The company of talented European players to whom the leading roles have been entrusted, have, after the manner of true artists, allowed themselves to become absorbed in the individualities of the characters of the play, to the extent of adding to the production a vivid realism.

Neither has the director of the picture forgotten what is expected of him, for in the detail of the play is evident a thorough and careful examination of the plot, and development of the character work, which latter indicates an insight into the human side of the question.

Judging from the fact that an Éclair trailer follows in the wake of the picture, the production has been staged at the Paris Éclair studios. In it an exquisite type of photography is displayed, which, coupled with effective lighting and tastefully arranged sets adds something more than a “mite” to the enjoyment of the whole.

The various situations of the play have been recorded without superfluous action or excess of emotion, and the main theme of the story has been adhered to with few complications. At one or two points only does the question of identification arise, which uncertainty is quickly cleared away by explanation in sub-title or the presentation of a new angle of the situation.

Jan. 25th is the date set for the release of the production, which promises to please the most fastidious audience.

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Scene from Retrieving the Past (Warner)

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Robert Edeson in “A Grain of Dust”

William Fox, head of the Box Office Attractions Company, has selected Lloyd B. Carleton to direct a picturized version of A Grain of Dust, in which Robert Edeson will appear in the role originally portrayed by James K. Hackett. A Grain of Dust is a dramatization of the widely read and discussed novel penned by David Graham Phillips, and was used as a starring medium for Mr. Hackett, several seasons ago.

In support of Mr. Edeson, there will appear a company of more than ordinary excellence, consisting of Claire Whitney, Byron Douglas, Edna Pendleton, Walter Hitchcock, Nanon Walsh, Stuart Holmes and Arthur Clifton.

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Kerrigan Company in “Five Hundred Dollars Reward”

While waiting for the completion of a number of Egyptian sets to be used in the production of the sixth chapter of the Terence O’Rourke series, the Kerrigan-Victor Company, under the direction of Jacques Jaccard, has staged another of their one-reel Western dramas, entitled Five Hundred Dollars Reward.

Warren Kerrigan is supported by Vera Sisson, George Periolat and Raymond G. Nye.

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Favorite Players’ Films in Cuba

The Favorite Players Film Co. has arranged with Mr. Ludwig Diller, of The Atlas Film Trading Co., to take Favorite Players’ films to Cuba and other South American countries. Mr. Diller left for Havana, Cuba, on January 6, taking with him the four-part photoplay The Key to Yesterday from the book by Charles Nevil Buck, featuring Carlyle Blackwell.

Mr. Diller is thoroughly familiar with film conditions in Latin-American countries, having devoted much time to that particular trade. He said, when seen at the office of the Favorite Players, “When you realize that these people are paying twenty cents gold for inferior shows you must admit that here is an excellent market for high-grade American film right at our door-step. I am convinced that superior features such as The Key to Yesterday must prove highly profitable and I am already laying my plans to take The Man Who Could Not Lose and The Last Chapter to Cuba, Porto Rico, and other South American countries.”

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John Emerson in “The Bachelor’s Romance”

Following his successful debut in motion pictures, in the Famous Players’ production of Charles Frohman’s detective comedy-drama, The Conspiracy, John Emerson will be again presented in another Famous Players’ offering, in a screen production of the celebrated play, The Bachelor’s Romance, by Martha Morton, a charming “human-nature” drama, brimming over with quaint humor, colorful characterizations and refreshing romance. Mr. Emerson’s success in The Conspiracy was so instantaneous and general as to make further introduction to the motion picture public unnecessary.

Collection: Moving Picture World, January 1915