New Million-Dollar Company

The Equity Motion Picture Co., Inc. of New York, that has been filming comedies featuring Billy B. Van, the comedian, and the Public Service Film Co., of New York, that has been handling and exhibiting moving pictures have combined forces with a capitalization of one million dollars, with Billy B. Van as president, Joseph Leblang, vice president, Alexander L. Jones, treasurer, and Morris Cohen, secretary and counsel. The administrative offices of the company are located In the Strand theater building. Billy B. Van Is well known as an eccentric comic of the spoken drama and it is proposed he will be as equally well known in the silent drama. Mr. Van owns several thousand acres in and about the hills and mountains in the vicinity of Lake Sunapee and also a large indoor studio, where he has turned out a number of comedy pictures during the past summer. The new Equity Motion Picture Co. have built a studio at Rldgefield Park, N. J., where they will commence picture making on or about the first of the year and will continue featuring Billy B. Van, the Beaumont Sisters and are also negotiating with other well known stars of the stage, whose comedy work will soon be seen under the brand of the Equity Motion Picture Company.

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