Moving Picture News (1911) . GET A REP THE MOVING PICTURE NEWS GET A REP From the Motion PictureDistributing and Sales Company 22 THE MOVING PICTURE NEWS THE MOVING PICTURE THEATER IN AUS-TRALASIA—THE GREATER J. D, WIL—.- >. LiAivfs Amusement co., ltd.^ By Margaret I. MacDonald IWAS somewhat disappointed to find that after all,Mr. J. D. Williams was not a Canadian. I hadhoped to claim national kinship with him. How-ever, my disappointment was somewhat appeased whenhe told me that he had spent many years in the Cana-dian west—in Winnipeg and Vancouver. In fact, MR. J. D. WILLIAMS Willia
Moving Picture News (1911) . GET A REP THE MOVING PICTURE NEWS GET A REP From the Motion PictureDistributing and Sales Company 22 THE MOVING PICTURE NEWS THE MOVING PICTURE THEATER IN AUS-TRALASIA—THE GREATER J. D, WIL—.- >. LiAivfs Amusement co., ltd.^ By Margaret I. MacDonald IWAS somewhat disappointed to find that after all,Mr. J. D. Williams was not a Canadian. I hadhoped to claim national kinship with him. How-ever, my disappointment was somewhat appeased whenhe told me that he had spent many years in the Cana-dian west—in Winnipeg and Vancouver. In fact, MR. J. D. WILLIAMS Williams had an extensive circuit of theaters in the westbefore he was lured away in the interests of the photo-play, as he calls the moving picture, to the practicallyuntraversed field of Australasia. It was in Sydney that Mr. Williams made his firstventure. The Colonial No. i, on George street, Sydney,was soon found to be incompetent to handle the crowdsof picture lovers who frequented it, and ere long likemushrooms sprung out of the ground, appear on theopposite side of the street. Colonial No. 2, and the the beginning at Sydney branched out other en-terprises of the same kind, under the supervision, andmanagement of the same firm, and there are still moreto follow. Mr. Williams, who passed through New Yorkon his way to Europe, has with him as one of hisparty an architect who will inspect and draw plans fromthe leading theaters in America and Europe, with aview to perfecting one concise and idealistic plan uponwhich will be built, in Australasia, some
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