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Tlfoe Fol&y ©if ©<q>ss&@ Proprietors. 

On another page is a report of conditions of three 
nickelodeons in Wilkes Barre, and while we. are far from 
saying all nickelodeons are conducted like these, we 
know many are in just as bad a plight. The proprietors 
are wilfully and maliciously ignoring laws that are made 
for their own as well as the safety of the public,, and to 
conduct their houses in such a manner is criminal. We 
have no desire to start a panic; or to hold up a few in- 
stances | of law-breaking as. a reason to decry the whole 
industry. We are only raising our voice in protest in 
the ranks of the trade. We want the proprietors to sit 
up. and take notice; the general public does not read our 
columns, so that as far as we are concerned we can 
lismiss them, but every proprietor in the States receives 
1 copy of this paper and these remarks are addressed 
othem. 

You are personally responsible for the trouble with 
he fire insurance companies, for the impost of unjust 
estrictions, for irritating and exacting conditions the 
rarious city authorities have hedged around you. In 
Four own hands lies the remedy, and it is only when, you 
irouse yourselves to comply with the wishes of the pow- 
ers that be, that -many restrictions which now gall you 
rill be removed. What right have these three men (and 
hey are not all by any means) to defy with contumely 
he just and reasonable requests made upon them? Do 
hey not see that every one of their colleagues is classed 
! a the same category, no matter how careful and pains- 
i &ing they may be ? By their omission to comply with 
he law's demand, unjust exactions are imposed on- the 
onocent, who must suffer with the guilty. The law 
ays, and with justice, that every nickelodeon shall have 
srtain exits in case of fire, and if these exits are closed 
pi blocked up, and a fire occurs in which lives are lost. 
|he proprietors are guiltv of murder and should be pun- 



ished accordingly. 3 The law also askj thjafef#8»ines of 
a certain type only be used, and these only after passing 
tests as to their safety. It is criminal for a manufac- 
turer or dealer to supply any machines but these, and 
-they should be brought to book. 

Further, proprietors of nickelodeons who for the sake 
of saving a few paltry dollars purchase and use such 
machines, should not be allowed to stay in the business, 
or compelled to purchase good machines, and put their 
house in order. It is no use closing your eyes to the fact 
that it is only a case of the survival of the fittest, and the 
elimination of all who are hot up to a certain standard. 

The nickelodeons are important factors in the enter- 
tainment of the masses to-day, and they, springing up 
everywhere and in every conceivable city, town or hamlet 
where there are three or four, there is no diminution of 
patronage, all are getting a good livelihood, and the pros- 
pects for the future are bright. It therefore behooves 
every operator of a machine, every proprietor of a nick- 
elodeon, every renter of films, and finally the manufac- 
turer to elevate the tone of the exhibitions and give only 
the best. In our visits in New York and neighborhood 
there is room for improvement in many instances, nota- 
bly in the Manhattan Theater, where the worst operator 
in the city can be found, and the exhibition one of the 
worst we have witnessed. No matter when we go, the 
film breaks in the most interesting part and the story is 
lost, or the light goes out and only a ghost is seen. The 
management for the credit of the whole profession ought 
to improve matters very considerably. These abuses we 
have touched upon are in the hands of the proprietors 
and can be remedied at once to the satisfaction of all 
concerned. 



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New Yorli Ttmrsday evening. 

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Since the enactment of the two-cents-a-mile tariff, the 
railroads have withdrawn the fare-and-a-third privilege 
formerly granted to conventions. No reduced rates are * 
at present issued over any of the roads, but we have ob- 
tained a special concession from the General Passenger 
Agent of the New York Central Railroad for the ex- 
clusive use of a Pullman car at the day coach rate on the 
Chicago & St. Louis Limited, leaving Desbrosses Street 
station at 6 p. m. and West Forty-second Street at 6.15 
p. m. over the West Shore tracks to Albany, thence over 
the New York Central and Lake Shore tracks to Chi- 
cago, where it arrives at 9 p. m. 

This is a most convenient hour to leave New York, 
an hour's time is allowed in Buffalo for breakfast, and 
a daytime ride from there to Chicago allows the dele- 
gates time for discussing many matters of interest. If 
delegates from other Eastern points join this train at 
Buffalo, Cleveland and Toledo, much may be accom- 
plished on ' the train and all will arrive in Chicago in 
time to prepare for a comfortable night's rest previous 
to the morning of the convention. The train leaves the 
Lake Shore station at Buffalo at 7 a. m. ; Cleveland at 
10.45 a « m., and Toledo at 2.05 p. m. 

Berths will be reserved on this train in the order re- 
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New York, or by The Moving Picture World. Appli- 
cations for berths must be accompanied. by check for five 
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Selecting a Subject for Lectures. 

By Burton H. Allbee. 

Subjects for illustrated lectures are endless. They con- 
front one at every turn, but the man with wisdom enough 
to select the best is lonesome in this world. What may 
seem of vital interest to him and likely to command at- 
tention from almost any audience to which it might be 
presented will frequently fall flat Different men look at 
a subject from widely separated viewpoints and what 
interests one will not always interest another. 

In selecting a subject for development the lecturer 
should consider carefully how and where he is going to 
use it. If, for example, it is to be used in one of the 
free popular courses now so common in the large edu- 
cational centers, it ought to be of an educational char- 
acter and the illustrations should be of an extremely high 
quality. If the lecture is to be used on the road before 
varying audiences in varying communities it should be 
composed so as to provide numerous interested and lively 
climaxes, or points where the interest of both story and 
picture can be emphasized without seeming out of pro- 
portion. . The object of this' should be to increase the 
interest of the audience without really seeming to do so. 

Sometimes lectures are to be given before select audi- 
ences, that is to say, those interested in one particular 
phase of a subject of general interest. An example of this 
can b~e shown in the illustrated nature lectures which take 
. up some subject connected with birds or animals. While 
these nature lectures are all on one great subject, the, 
numerous subdivisions afford opportunity for the de- 
velopment of many interesting lectures which do not 
conflict with each other nor with the main subject. It 
will be found that the same, thing holds good of almost 
any other subject a lecturer may select. In history there 
are quite as many sub-divisions as there are in nature 
work and opportunities -for- -extremely interesting and 
instructive lectures are unlimited. 

The great industrial world affords further opportuni- 
ties for development unequalled in their "wealth of inter- 
est and the instructive character of their matter. So one 
might go on enumerating different subjects- and their sub- 
divisions, but in the end no more information could be 
conveyed than has thus far been given. 

Perhaps one general principle will cover this whole 
matter of selecting a subject. It will be found that die 
subject upon which a man can -talk the best and can best 
hold the attention of his hearers will be one in which he 
is himself interested to a greater or less extent The 
more he is interested the better. He will be better able to 
develop a lecture like this and will be able to convey to 
his hearers something of his own knowledge of the sub- 
ject and will, therefore, bring to it that peculiar magnet- . 
ism which cannot be described, but which is felt by every 
audience and must be possessed by every lecturer to 
render him capable ol impressing upon his audiences - 
something of his own enthusiasm in and his own knowl- 
edge of the subject. 

. Sometimes one thinks when searching for a subject 
that it would- be better if the supply were not- so liberal. 
A scarcity would be better, one may think, for that would 
narrow them down to a comparative few. Where the 
world is full of subjects and one is more or less interested 
in each, or has more or less knowledge of each, the se- 
lection is difficult There isn't likely to be much in- 
tensity and the preparation may, under some conditions, 
be anything but satisfactory. .One' wonders sometimes 
when, listening, to the more. or. less! rambling talks upon 
different subjects if this wouldn't serve as ah explanation 
of the reason for the lack of interest in the lecture evinced 



by the audience. Of course good pictures will compen- 
sate in some degree, but an illustrated lecture is not a 
moving picture entertainment and the lecturer is sup- 
posed to do his part in interesting the audience. 

Another principle can be safely followed—select the 
subject which lies closest to the heart of the people to 
whom you are to talk. A more or less interesting and 
illuminating subject, dealing with something at a distance, 
and dealing with it in a machine way, will not be satis- 
factory. Something intense, something vital, something 
which will appeal to one's hearer will be the subject 
which will draw the biggest crowds and will command 
attention wherever it is presented. Sometimes the 
simple subject which can be selected about home and de- 
veloped from one's own personal knowledge will bring 
far greater satisfaction and financial returns than one 
which deals with something at a distance and which by 
no possible means can the bulk of the audiences ever 
know much about. 

Having selected a subject, for example something near 
home, begin to develop it along interesting and informa- 
tional' lines. The two forces should be invoked in every 
lecture. It must interest else it will not draw the crowds. 
It should instruct, else it misses a portion of its possi- 
bility. Perhaps of the two, interest is the more important 
With interest there must go much information. Without 
interest there may be information ', but it will be presented 
in "such a humdrum and unsatisfactory mariner that few 
will stay it out Therefore, emphasize interest. And 
this emphasis can be obtained legitimately. 

Sometimes it is possible for the lecturer to make long 
trips for the purpose of finding and developing subjects. 
Such a lecturer is fortunate and if lie does his work well 
he will be able to command large audiences and will be 
able to make money. Such men as Burton Holmes and 
Prof. Elmendorf prove this conclusively. They travel 
through the summer, select their subjects, developing and 
illustrating them according to their own ideas and they 
spend their winters giving them to the public. In both 
these instances the lecturer and the public are gainers. It 
would be difficult to discover anywhere better models 
for a lecturer to follow. 

But where one cannot go to distant and interesting 
countries he must, perforce, select somthing close at 
hand. Suppose he takes the work of a farmer from 
spring until fall. Can anything be made more interesting 
for an illustrated lecture? Can anything be selected 
which will interest dwellers in cities more favorably than 
this? Everyone consumes more or less of the products 
of the farm. Many thousands in the cities have grown 
up on the farms and will appreciate any lecture which will 
effectually describe and illustrate them. The things we 
have seen look best to us when they are thrown on the 
screen. In addition there will be great interest shown by 
those" who have never seen the different things growing, 
nor have they ever seen the operations required to pro-. 
duce them. If the lecturer can impress his hearers that j 
he is showing them what happens to their food product 
before they reach the consumers' table, he will arouse an, 
interest which could be obtained in no other way and the | 
fact that these articles are grown as shown in the illus- 
trations will bring about an interest not otherwise possi- 
ble and the audience will listen enraptured almost as the 
life story of this or that food product is described and 
illustrated. This hint might be worked out this year. 
So far as the writer know it has never been done. I" 
fact, the writer himself has begun such a lecture, but time 
and opportunity have never served to permit its finish. 

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might be utilized to"good advantage by any illustrated 
lecturer with a certainty that the interest of the audience 
would be held to the end and that the word would be 
passed along to others advising them to go. 

If one selects; something with which he is familiar and 
works it out in his own way, developing some of his own 
individuality, he is sure to command attention. Some- 
thing new, or better, something presented in a new way. 
It is practically impossible to present anything new. 
Every, subject seems hackneyed, yet there are new ways 
of describing a commonplace and trite subject and new 
ways of illustrating it which will attract universal atten- 
tion and those who hear and see will be convinced that 
they have heard and seen something new. 

the personality of the speaker is important — perhaps 
herein lies the source of the failure of so many promis- 
ing lecturers. They fail to develop their own personality 
and do not see and describe things as they see them, but 
as others see them. This is fatal and should never be 
begun. Look at your subject from your own personal 
standpoint. See it yourself. Select it with that particu- 
lar object in view and having seen it yourself then de- 
scribe it yourself. In this way you will impress it upon 
your audiences through your own personality and your 
reward will be commensurate. 




Important Doeioioia ofSuprene Coari, Now 
YorK Doe. 2z&«3, A&dctteg Sunday Shows. 

Until New York's Sunday amusement law as interpreted yes- 
terday by Supreme Court Justice O'Gorman is amended by 
the Board of Aldermen or the Legislature, Police Commissioner 
Bingham will be compelled to prevent, beginning with next Sun- 
day, the following violations : 

Presentation of vaudeville or burlesque by twenty-seven thea- 
ters (in the Borough of Manhattan alone). 

Sunday evening concerts at the Metropolitan and the Man- 
hattan Opera Houses. 

Concerts, "sacred" or otherwise, in theaters and halls through- 
oat the Greater Gty Sunday afternoons and evenings. 

All recitals and symphony concerts on Sunday. 

Sunday night plays in French and German at two theaters 
in Manhattan. 

Sunday performances at more than one hundred penny and 
nickel phonograph galleries and moving picture shows in as 
many more places. 

And if it were Summer, the police would be compelled, under- 
this interpretation of the Sunday law, to shut up every place 
of amusement at Coney Island, Canarsie, Manhattan Beach and 
the other seaside resorts, as well as all the roof gardens in the 
city. ..".' 

'The law," Justice O'Gorman says, "is plain, and there can 
he no excuse for laxity in its observance or enforcement All 
performances in theaters or other places of public amusement 
and entertainment on Sunday are prohifcjjed." 

For forty-seven years the law has been on the books in sub- 
stantially its present form, yet the excuses have never been 
wanting to prevent its enforcement, and a complacent public 
opinion apparently has been satisfied to let it remain a dead 
■«ter. It has taken fifteen years of almost continuous agitation 
to bring the statute to this first decisive test. 

Few decisions, in the history of the New York courts have 
affected so many persons as does this one closing the doors of 
Sunday diversion to 69,000 patrons of Sunday vaudeville in 
•Manhattan, fully 25,000 who attend Sunday evening concerts 
sod easily 50,000 more who enjoy divers forms of Sunday en- 
tertainment in the" greater city. Half a million more patronize 
*s seaside resorts on Sunday in the Summer. 



A decisive step was taken by the Grand Jury, of Brooklyn, 
N. Y., to put to the severest- and quickest test the decision of 
Supreme Court Justice Aspinall to the effect that shows of any 
kind on Sundays are illegal and should be stopped. The whole 
matter hinges on the question of the rights "of the moving pic- 
ture shows to open on Sundays. 

Canon Chase, as leader of the Sunday Observance Movement, 
appeared before the Grand Jury as a witness in the • investiga- 
tion of that body into Sunday moving picture shows. Deputy 
Police Commissioner O'Keeffe also was a witness. The follow- 
ing resolution was given out by the Grand Jury on the subject: 

'"Whereas, The attention of the November Grand Jury of 
Kings County has been directed to certain violations of the 
law in the giving of Sunday shows in the Borough of Brooklyn, 
and the District Attorney's agents have reported that a large 
number of such shows were given Sunday, November 17 ; 

"Whereas, Judge Aspinall decided in a case before him on 
November 12 that Section 265 of the Penal Code prohibits such 
Sunday shows and provides a punishment for them. 

"Resolved, That this Grand Jury request Deputy Police Com- 
missioner O'Keeffe to have the law against such Sunday shows 
promptly and intelligently enforced without delay." 

It is understood, however, that this resolution was not tne 
unanimous sentiment of the members of the Grand Jury. A 
direct test case will be made and the arrest of some manager 
will follow, and a decision by a jury will be had. 

Chief of Police Cowles, of New Haven, Conn., issued orders 
to his men to stop all future Sunday business by the moving 
picture shows about town commonly known as nickelots. Most 
of the shows have been in the habit of running Sunday after- 
noons or evenings, or both. The "outlandish" music, as the 
chief styles it, from the orchestral phonographs at the nicolets, 
is a flagrant violation of the Sabbath quiet, he declares, and 
the crowd of children who may always be found in front of the 
shows add to the disturbance. 

"These shows have no more right to run Sunday than any 
theater," explained Chief Cowles, "and they must confine their 

business to six days in the week." 

* * * 

Business at all the motion picture houses is very big, and 
seems to be growing bigger. The more there are the more 
business each seems to draw. "Motion Picture" parties are in 
order from the suburban towns, is a report from Boston. 

* * * 

HERO DIDN'T DIE. 

Cleveland, November 29. — The moving picture shows in town 
are being pursued red-hot by Chief Kohler. No vaudeville will 
be allowed, nor can any sensational pictures be shown. 

This week a phonograph in one store show was stopped.' In 
another, where a film called "A Lust for Gold" was being shown, 
the proprietor was arrested. 

The police officials said the picture showed a murder and 
was debasing the public's morals. 

H. H. Burnett, manager of the Lyric, who was placed under, 
arrest, replied: "He's a fine guy to say that fellow was mur- 
dered.' Whoever heard of the hero being killed in the first 
forty feet of film. Hully Geel He was all right again within 
the next twenty feet, and married the girl in the next sixty, 

but that fresh fellow wouldn't wait" 

» * # 

Referring to our note in last week's issue re first nickelodeon, 
a Buffalo correspondent sends the following: 

Mr. Mark, manager of Theatre Comique of this city, is re- 
sponsible for the present motion picture craze throughout the 
country, for just ten years ago.it was his fertile brain which 
inaugurated a new field of endeavor and enterprise for show 
men. February 9, 1897, with his brother, M. H. Mark, he opened 
up the first picture house in the country, leasing a small store 
in the Ellicott Building, Buffalo, N. .Y., for the purpose of 
screening motion views at the nominal price of ten cents. The- 
atrical managers, however, before that time, had taken up the 
picture business as a part of the regular programme of their 
vaudeville houses, and few advertisers had been quick to see 
the possibilities in the new invention. 

Mark's Vitascope Hall, the pioneer picture theater, was a 
small store, and when made over for the venture, it seated ninety 
people at a performance. Each patron was taxed ten cents 
for a ten-minute performance, and twenty-five exhibitions of 
one motion picture were given daily. There were no Illustrated 
songs, and the only music furnished was from the piano player. 
Froni this point the craze started with a. boom, as Mark's ven- 
ture, notwithstanding its limitations, was a howling success with 
the Buffalo people. At this time of the motion picture beginning, 
the Edison Company and the American Biograph people fur- 
nished the house with films, while the machine used was one ot 
the original Edison outfits. "Vitascope Hall" was sold out by 



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THE" MOVING PICTURE WORLD. 



the Mark Brothers soon after, and they embarked in the penny 
business, for a time breaking away from the ten-cent proposi- 
tion. In the cent show idea they remained interested for seven 
years, selling out a year ago, the business of a thirty-house cir- 
cuit to a New York syndicate. 

* * ♦ 

Vice-Chancellor Learning, in Camden, November 27, refused 
Harvey T. Ringler an injunction, to restrain Bloomfield H. 
Minch, of Bridgeton, from ejecting the complainant, from a 
building in Bridgeton used as a moving picture show. 

* * * 

Nebraska City, Neb. — The city fathers have decided that some 
of the pictures as shown at the moving picture shows, repre- 
senting murders and suicides, are objectionable, and under the 
direction of Councilman J. D. Houston, the chief of police has 
been instructed to censor all of the pictures before they are 
exhibited to the public 

Councilman Houston says pictures of crime are demoralizing 
to the children. 

Manager Rolfe has taken the matter up with his attorney 
and if molested or an attempt is made to stop any of the Wild 
West plays which are booked, he will test the law. on the mat- 
ter. The picture show men are getting ready to test the matter 
Jn the courts if they are arrested. 

Several weeks ago there came to this city from Shenandoah, 
Iowa, Robert Flagg and Edward Evans, and they opened a mov- 
ing picture show adjoining the building occupied by another show 
of this kind. 

* * * 

Director George W. Lederer, of the Auditorium Theater, 
Chicago, has concluded to do away with moving pictures save 
where the subject treated deals with big, momentous and cur- 
rent happenings. "This move is made," said Mr. Lederer, '|be- 
cause in advanced vaudeville it becomes a misnomer and a time 
killer to depict staged and rehearsed happenings and label them 
any old thing from Cinderella and the Golden Slipper to the 
Great Train Robbery. What the public wants, and what I agree 
they are entitled to, is action, plenty of it, and this we are 
going to give them." 

* * * 

Managers of the moving picture shows in operation in Man- 
chester, Va., will combine and employ counsel to forward a 
movement looking to a reduction of the State and city license 
taxes .now assessed against them. ' They will endeavor to have 
a bill passed by the next Legislature relieving them of a part 
of the taxes and placing their business in a class by itself. '- 

At present the moving picture show is in the same license tax 
class as the theater playing first-class dramatic attractions. The 
five-cent moving picture places pay the same license taxes to 
State and city as the Academy of Music and the Bijou. Theater. 
The picture men declare that this is obviously unfair, as an. at- 
traction in a first-class theater will have greater .receipts at one 
performance than the. moving picture show takes in all week. 

An argument in favor, of lower license tax for. the moving 
picture theater, which' .will be .presented to the Legislature and 
City Council, is that the picture show is the poor man's show. 
The man who cannot afford to pay admission to the theaters 
for his family will have the benefit of a wide choice of moving 
picture shows if the license is reduced. Few moving picture 
shows can do business at the present rate of taxation.. 

The managers of these places argue that they are of advam 
tage to the masses because the pictures presented are largely 
educational, giving persons who will never have the opportunity 
to travel views of foreign lands, scenes of historical interest; 
panoramic tours of the United States and pictures that give an 
intelligent idea of the operations of the. principal industries of 
the world. 

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F. Mundee, of St. John, N. B., has leased a large store in 
the Wood Block, and will occupy it with the Half-Hour Moving 
Picture Company. Seats will be arranged for 450. Mr. Mundee 
expects to be open for business some time next week. 

* * * ' ' 

Burlington, N. J. — Citizens who opened their eyes in amaze-, 
pent when, one after another, four moving picture shows opened 
in this city, are still more surprised to . find that the craze has" 
not yet reached its limit. A milkman has offered to sell his. 
route cheap in order that. he may enter the business, while a 
prominent painter wants to put up his business as security for 
the installation of a similar show, and a suburban farmer has 
6£ken similar tactics with his property. ' One candy merchant,, 
ready to capitulate because children spend their nickels with the! 
moving picture man, is seeking to .sell out and invest the prcK 
ceeds for a machine and films. 



James B. Brown, for some time connected with the CatsldD 
,(N. Y.) Mail, is now press agent for the W. A. Folser Kinetc- 
graph Company, which gives moving picture 'shows throughout 

the country. 

• . r * * * 

There has been a general curiosity on the part of the public 
to know how. a modern newspaper is made and to satisfy it $« 
whole story was recently told at Keith's Philadelphia Theattr, 
in a remarkable series of life motion pictures called "The Mak- 
ing, of a Modern Newspaper." The Philadelphia Record was 
selected as the model by S'. Lubin, who made a number of real 
istic pictures. 

The series opens with a scene representing a newspaper office 
over a hundred years ago. This is to give artistic and historical 
contrast to the great mechanical advance in journalism since 
.'that time. It shows the outside of an old Philadelphia printing 
shop, and the next glimpse is of the inside of the same estab- 
lishment 

A journeyman is laboriously pulling impressions with a Wash 
ington hand press, while his apprentice is busy among the type, 
both being dressed in the custom of the period. ; 

The next picture leaps across a century, and gives a fine pano- 
ramic view of the Philadelphia Record. In a flash is seen the 
Record's electric baseball score board with the great crowd 
watching the progress of an exciting game. 

Other pictures show the Record's business, cut, editorial, ad- 
vertising and mechanical departments. 

* * * 

ONLY ONE PICTURE SHOW ALLOWED IN GREEN 

FIELD, MASS. 

Only the action of the selectmen prevented the town from hav- 
ing two continuous moving-picture and illustrated song enter- 
tainments this Winter. Herbert S. Streeter.a local man, secured 
a license from the selectmen, leased the fine Davenport store and 
proposes, to spend about. $2,000 for getting ready. Mr. Streeter 
proposes." to call his place bf amusement Bijou Theater. G. E 
Moulton, of Newburyport, rented the old carriage repository on 
Federal street and proposed to fit the building for another mov- 
ing picture show. The selectmen thought one daily afternoon 
and evening Show of this kind was enough and declined to give 
Mr. Moulton a licensed - • - 

* .* * 
Carl" Wehmeyer, of St. Louis, Mo... proprietor of a nickelodeon 

at 1511 Market street, believes he is in hard luck. 
. His. place has been robbed three times, and partially destroyed 
by fire, but. the climax came Tuesday evening when a man ap- 
peared at the place and offered to sell him "cheap" some of the 
films and other stuff which; was . taken from him in the fir it 
robbery! ' . . . 

The man who offered the stolen films for sale said he had 
been given them by a negro; whose name he gave the police. . 
• • .. , **'.*. • ' . '. . . ' * ' 

In Chicago a protest against the exhibition of certain pictures 
in five-cent theaters was made to Mayor Busse. by. a . delegation 
from the congregation of St- Michael's Roman Catholic Church, 
Eugenie street and Cleveland avenue. The delegation declared 
that many of the pictures Shown were suggestive; and produced 
a list of the theaters in the: district in which they were shown. 
Mayor Busse turned the list over to Chief Shippy, with instruc- 
tions to make an investigation and submit a report. ... 

*' * * 

That another theater will be reopened in Fall River, Mass.; 
soon is now possible. The Rich's Theater property on Second 
street has been purchased by Messrs. Hill and Hooper, busineil 
men of Brockton, who intend to renovate the property from top 
to bottom, and to open the theater inside of ten days, as a mov- 
ing picture house; to add to the list already in operation in this 
city. Rich's Theater has not been open since last Spring. The 
hew management intends to have a clean show from start to 
finish. 

•**'*"■ a 

NO CLINTON PICTURE SHOW. 
Clinton, N. Y., Nov. 21.— The Board of Aldermen has refused 
to allow moving picture shows to exhibit in this town. 

Edward F. Galligan, of Taunton, appeared before the select- 
men last night in connection with his petition for a license for » 
moving picture hall in Attleboro, Mass.. He said that he in- 
tended to have vaudeville as well as moving pictures, and that 
if he made a success, he might build a hall here. He explained 
that he was in New York and so could not- attend the hearinjj 
given on the petition. He -thought that -there was . room enough 
in the town for two such amusement places and that,: with bi* 
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here. A few reserved seats, he thought, would make It possible 
to give the vaudeville as well as moving pictures. 

Selectman Sweeney favored granting the license and so moved. 
Chairman Worrall seconded the motion, and it was so voted with 
out opposition. A license fee of $25 will be charged. 

* * * 

Fire caused by a sprocket wheel flying off the moving picture 

machine making a short circuit, did about $400 damage to W. F. 

Bockhover's show house at 255 South Main street, Los Angeles, 

Cal. J. A. Sowsey, who was in charge of the machine, was 

1 burned about the head and hands. 

When Sowsey saw the flames shooting up, he attempted to 
save three rolls of films, but the fire drove him out 

* * * 

An. explosion, caused by the contact of the highly inflammable 
film strip with an electric light, nearly resulted in a small panic 
in the Scenic Temple, a moving picture theater on Second street, 
Chelsea. The prompt opening of the several exits, however, 
-was the means of partially calming the frightened women and 
children who comoosed most of the audience, but there was a 
mad rush for the street, every one escaping safely. Walter 
Spence, the operator of the machine, extinguished the blaze' after 
severely burning his face and hands'. The machine and films 
were destroyed. 

* * * 

NEW COMPANIES 
Buffalo Film Exchange, Buffalo, to manufacture moving pic- 
ture films, talking machines and records; capital, $20,000. In- 
corporators: Joseph A. Schubert, No. 13 East Genesee street; 
Francis A. Schubert, No. 405 Delaware avenue; Ernest W. 
Mclntyre, No. 49 Niagara street, all of Buffalo. • 

* * .* 

Dover, Del., Nov. 22. — The list of nickelodeon corporations 
with strong capitalization is growing. The State Department 
of Delaware issued a certificate of incorporation to the South 
Penn Nickelodeon Association, to buy, sell and operate motion 
picture films, motion picture machines. The capital stock is 
535,000, and the incorporators are of Waynesburg, Pa. 

* * * 

The O. T. Crawford Manufacturing Company— O. T. Craw- 
ford, 89 shares ; A. S. Kane,. 10 ; Clarence Huff t 1. . To manu- 
facture and deal in photographs, moving picture machines, etc. 
Capital stock, one-half paid, $10,000. 

.'•'*♦,* ■ •» 

IN THE INTEREST OF DECENCY. 

If the movement to censorize. the cheap theaters and moving 
picture establishments is carried on in the. proper spirit, some 
good may be accomplished. In" conception the. idea is in. line 
with wholesome public policy,' though . in execution- care should 
be exercised' to' "prevent the undertaking from developing into 
persecution'.' "" '.-...• 

No small degree of intelligence will be called for. in deciding 
many questions that may arise. In the matter of pictures and 
performances which are flagrantly obnoxious, there can, of course, 
be no controversy; but after. this point of undisputed viciousness 
is passed, the problem becomes one where injustice may easily 
be done.. The ordinance governing the inspection or censorship 
should be drawn, cautiously, and too much power should not be 
invested in any one man. A scene or line or a performance 
that .would be considered highly improper by one critic might 
be regarded as admissible .by another, and despotic power should 
not be vested in the police judjje or any other official. 

The idea of a censorship is itself not particularly attractive, 
but there can be no sort of reasonable argument in favor of 
indecent exhibitions of any sort. If the present crusade is merely 
a "rider" to the fanatical crusade against Sunday theaters, all 
the good that might otherwise be accomplished will be- largely 
jeopardized,, for there is.no just connection between them. In- 
decent exhibitions should not be prohibited any day in the week. 
-Kansas City World. 

* * *' 

From Port Huron, Mich., we learn that the new moving pic- 
tare machine has been installed in the Washington school and is 
used for illustration purposes by the different classes. The ma- 
mine was obtained with money raised from coffees and -enter- 
tainments given by the school. 

* ♦ * 

■ : • ; • ERRATUM 
la our description of the Clarostat, .see issue November 23, 
Page 611, read: "It has 3 capacity of 5 kilowatts, using onhr 
''t to 1% kilowatts," instead of 1% to 1%; and for kilowatts in 
u se, read : : "Watts." Thus, a multiple rheostat uses 5,000 watts, 
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\ Wilkcsbarre correspondent sends us the following: 
. Building Inspector Held November 27 made a tour of the 
five-cent theaters in operation in the center of the city and dis- 
covered that the worst fears as to the dangers of these places 
becoming the scene of a panic were more than justified. 

When permits were granted for the construction of these places 
all the restrictions which the city laws in their present condition 
exact were placed upon them and the inspector insisted upon 
exits of the required capacity being placed in building and that 
other precautionary measures be taken, and the managers were 
prolific in promises to' do so. 

Since their erection the business which these places have de- 
veloped has become so large and the danger so apparent that 
fears have frequently been expressed that they would be the 
scene of some terrible accident in case of fire breaking out or any 
other occurrence causing a panic in the small and stuffy quarters, 
that the building inspector determined to make an inspection 
without warning to the proprietors and to learn for himself that 
so far as the present laws provide for it, the safety of the public 
is being maintained. N 

His inspection revealed an extremely bad condition of affairs 
at most of the places and. at none of them was it found that the 
law was being strictly observed. 

The first place visited was the Dreamland Theater on South 
Main street. Here the crowd was found to be so. great that many 
were standing in the rear, but this .place was found to be in 
better condition than any of the others. . No one was allowed to 
stand in the .aisles and large double doors on one side of the 
room, giving access to an alley, allow of rapid evacuation. It 
.was found, however, that red light's, which are indicative of 
exits, were placed about the walls in places where no exits 
exist and these were ordered removed. It was also found that 
the main doors for exit were closed during the performance and 
the proprietors were instructed to cease this practice One of 
the proprietors of this place objected to a compliance, with these 
requests on the part of the inspector and stated that the other 
places .were in worse condition than Dreamland, and this was 
found to be literally true, for the Empire Theater, on East 
Market street, operated by the same firm, was found to be in 
such a bad condition as regards exits that the other firm member 
was threatened with arrest and informed that if he failed to 
remedy conditions he would not be allowed to open his theater 
to-day. This place was the worst found in the tour. 

As in Dreamland there is one center aisle in this place and 
the seats were filled. There are no side exits, but on either side 
of the canvas on which the^ pictures are thrown are stairways, 
with an "exit" sign over 'them, but with no lights, so that the; 
are barely visible. ' 

The inspector attempted to make his way out through one of 

these exits but found the door locked. The proprietor then 

unlocked the door and the inspector found himself in a wages 

"shed, one side of which was open, but which was so filled with 

boxes, lumber and other rubbish that it -was almost impossible 

■ to get over them. 

He then examined the other door of exit from .the outside 
and found a great pile of rubbish, half the height of the door. 
placed against it, while a long ladder which lay against it would 
have made it absolutely impossible to open it from the inside. 
even if the door were unlocked, which it was not. This con- 
dition aroused the ire of the inspector and the proprietor was 
informed that he would not be allowed to do business there 
to-day unless this condition was remedied and lights Were placed- 
over the exit signs. This he promised to do. 

When a permit for the construction of this place was first 
applied for the building inspector refused to grant it, because: 
the rear of the building ran squarely up against an inclosed wages 
shed and there was no provision for exits of any kind. Those 
who originally contemplated opening the place then gave it uj 
and no further attempt was made to open it until the firm non 
in possession secured the right from the owners of the bam m 
tear out one side of the wagon shed and thus provide an ope 
shed into which exit might be made, but, as stated, even the - 
exits were not kept in good condition. 

The next visit was paid to the Star Theater across the stre 
Here also a great crowd was found and there was absoluh 
nothing inside to indicate' possible places of exit An inspect! 
of the place between performances, however, revealed a pi* 
about a foot in width between the canvas curtain and the s* 
walls where those desiring to gain access to the rear might do s?J 
and back of the curtain there was a large open space and h-' 
double doors giving access to an alley. The employees he 
were instructed to notify the. proprietor;- to have j signs pla^ 
designating the places of exit and to widen" the door in " 
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A visit was then paid to the Unique Theater on Public Square. 
Here it was found that the canvas screen extended all the way 
across the rear of the room. Narrow stairs, about a foot wide, 
lead up 7 to either side of the platform on which the screen was 
placed. Red lights were over them, but no exit signs. In order 
to reach the outside doors it was necessary for the inspector to 
crav.-l through a doorway leading to a space back of die piano 
pit and beneath the platform and then climb a ladder -through a 
narrow trap door to get to the outside door. 

Here it was found that the screen was only of muslin and 
that it was tacked to a wooden framework, and no doors were 
provided at all, and if the occasion arises by reason of which 
people must leave in a hurry they will be expected to crowd Up 
this narrow stairway, burst through the screen and then make 
their way out through the big double doors which exist in the 
rear of the screen. 

The management was informed that it would have to provide 
for doors through the screen, as originally called for; that the 
rear doors must be left unlocked during performances, and that 
signs showing the place of exit must be provided. 

The building inspector is determined that what regulations 
there are concerning these places must be respected and lived up 
to, as the danger if a panic should break out would be great even 
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Love yril\ find its way 

Through' paths, where wolves would fear 

to. prey, 
And if it dares enough 'twere hard 

If passion met not seme reward. — Byron. 
. "The Elopement." In this production the 
biograph has struck the dulcet chord in the 
gamut of human emotion, and in the very 
genesis of the story wins the sympathy oi 
. the spectator for the young- couple., who 
are the leading characters. The gallant 
lover, whose proposal of marriage is ac- 
cepted by his sweetheart, meets with a 
storm of disapproval from her father, on 
account of her youth. Tearful and discon- 
solate, they receive this prophylaxis to the 
consummation of their wishes. But 
"beauty's tears are lovelier than her 
smiles," and when the young knight be- 
holds the tender orbs of his lady fair welled 
with those heaven-moving pearls, he be- 
comes desperate, and as a dernier ressorl 
suggests elopement, to which suggestion his 
sweetheart cheerfully assents. 



- When the "queen of night shines fair, 
with all her virgin stars about her," the 
young chevalier rides up on that twentieth 
century Pegasus, the automobile, and tak- 
ing his inamorata aboard, they chug off 
down the road like the wind, with Eros 
at the wheel. They have hardly disap- 
peared before Pa and Ma, awakened by the 
snorting of the gasoline steed, start in pur- 
suit, clad only in their robe-de-nuit, in 
another auto. The young lovers are madly 
spinning along the Toad, touching only the 
high spots, when suddenly, frowns wrin- 
kle the brow of Fortune, and the idiosyn- 
crasies of the buzz-wagon for a time seem 
to militate against a happy denouement of 
the story. First, in making a sharp turn 
in the road, it skids and whirls around like 
a weather vane,, and a little further on it 
sticks fast in. a heavy morass, and no 
amount of manual persuasion will induce 
the carburetor to "carburet." Here they 
find themselves impaled on the horns of a 
dilemma. The pursuing auto is seen rap- 
idly advancing along the moonlit highway. 
Think, and think quickly. . Ah I to the 
woods, for autos have not as yet been 
trained to fly or climb trees. So through 



the woods they make their way until they 
come to a lake where a motor-boat is tied 
to the landing. Into this they leap and are 
soon swiftly cutting through the scintillat- 
ing ripples of the turquoise waters. But 
misfortune sits ahelm, and the Sphinx 
would shed tears of pity at their plight 
when, while darting along towards their 
goal, the opposite shore, the motor-boat ex- 
plodes, hurlinsr them into the cold, merci- 
less water, The stout-hearted lover suc- 
ceeds in bringing his precious burden 
ashore, and carries her prostrate form to a 
farmhouse nearby, where the bucolic altru- 
ism of the old country couple soon revives 
their chilled spirits, attiring their bodies in 
suits of their clothing in place of the wet 
ones they had on. You may imagine they 
cut most ludicrous figures as they stood 
before the village parson, whom the good 
old farmer hurriedly summoned — the bride- 
groom in. his host's dress suit, which, what 
it lacked in length, more than amply made 
up in breadth, and the blushing bride in a 
pristine creation of dressmaker's art be- 
longing to the old lady. But Cupid is no 
respector of raiment — if he was, he would 
dress differently himself — and so the happy 





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pair are made one just as Pa and Ma rush 
into the farmhouse, whither they trace the 
recalcitrant young ones. But, all too late, 
and making the best of the situation, they 
give the newlyweds their parental blessing.. 
Thus terminates the calamitous adventures 
of a pair of determined lovers. 

The scenes — the exterior ones being 
beautifully tinted for moonlight effect — 
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who is borne on a stretcher, wounded to 
death. 



The Kalem Company this week put on 
the market the Roman spectacular subject, 
"Ben Hur." The scene opens with an as- 
sembly of citizens who are harangued by 
one of their number, whose words have 
great weight with the crowd, and their at 
titude of approval shows that Roman mis- 
rule in Jerusalem has reached its climax. 
Heralds now approach and Roman soldiers 
beat back the crowd to make way for the 
approach of the Roman Procurator. The 
scene changes to the home of Ben Hur, 
who is seen with his sister and mother on 
the house top. The cavalcade of Roman 
troops approaches, and to get a near view 
Ben Hur leans from the coping and knocks 
down one of the stones thereof on to the 
shoulder of the Procurator. This is seen 
and misconstrued by the Governor, who 
orders soldiers to arrest the inmates; they, 
after ineffectual .pleas and struggles, are 
carried off. 

Ben.' Hur is consigned to the galleys, 
where he is loaded with chains. Here he 
signalizes • himself by saving the life of 
Arrias, who publicly adopts him as his son 
and proclaims him a Roman citizen amidst 
the acclamations of the assembled' crowd 
in the forum. Now comes the scene in the 
games where Ben Hur is challenged by 
Messala, and accepts it, to the great delight 
of the citizens. The chariots and athletes 
parade before the dias and.jri due time are 
arranged, and the chariot race commences. 
Three times 'round the ring dash the 
chariots, , and at "the fourth fun \Ben Hiir 
comes out -1ihe 'vietor'sahd is-crowned 'with 
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Next week's issues from Williams, Brown 
& Earle are: "The Sticky Bicycle." A 
bill poster is engaged sticking up a large 
notice on a blank wall. Two errand boys 
ate busily engaged watching the pro- 
ceedings, leaving their baskets of wares on 
the pavement. As the man, after using the 
paste, puts the brush back in the tin, he 
turns to straighten out the bill, and the 
two kiddies see opportunities at once for 
mischief. Looking around they see an old 
cyclist ride up, dismount, leave his bike 
near them, and disappear within a door- 
way. Seizing the paste-brush one recon- 
noitres, the other pastes the saddle of the 
machine. After the deed is accomplished 
they quietly go back, and replace the brush. 

The cyclist soon comes out again, and 
jumping on his machine rides off. He has 
not gone far before he realizes he is un- 
able to dismount! As he pedals along he 
calls for help, and to policemen and helpers 
generally he explains his position as they 
run beside him. After bringing him to a 
standstill, the crowd divide up, one side 
taking- hold of- the man's shoulders and 
the others clutching firmly the bike. A 
fearful tug-of-war takes place, and after a 
good long, long pull, bike and man part, 
sending each side sprawling. "The Re- 
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young girls the mistress finds it necessary 
to administer punishment ' to one of her 
pupils. Leaving strict instructions for the 
class to get on with their work, she leaves 
the room for awhile. During her absence 
the youngster, who has sorely resented hei 
chastisement, harangues the class, and stirs 
them up to a rebellious mood. 

When the teacher returns, she is sur- 
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up by numerous girls, who seize her as she 
sprawls on the floor. The leader obtains 
the birch and gives her teacher a goodly 
taste. Having had enough fun in this di- 
rection, they fetch a- large jar of black ink 
and pour, it over their unhaooy mistress 
And "A Letter in the Sand." A young 
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to "pop the question," . is disappointed to 
find the young lady sitting on the sand b> 
the side of her stern looking father. Not 
to be outdone, he scribbles a note, and with 
sundry signs to the girl, buries it jnthe 
sand close by. The young IafryT^kCeping 
her parent's attention seaward, signs to the 
youth that she fully understands. Unfortu- 
nately for them both, a lady, certainly not 
youthful, watches this little plan, and nat- 
urally takes the note to be intended for her 
self. Jumping from her seat, she at once 
appropriate it, which considerably disturbs 
the two lovers. 

The rival lady, who has read the 'note, 
goes up to the young man and plainly tells 
him that she accepts his offer. She en- 
deavors to force her claim by taking the 
young man's arm. The situation becomes 
desperate, and the youth races off, chased 
by his - admirer. The young lady, seeing 
her lover being chased by a rival, follows 
up the other pair. The father, with fero- 
cious signs, naturally goes after his girl to 
bring her to her senses! 

The chased lover dashes to the pier, and 
vaults over the gates, only to be followed 
by his pursuer. The younger lady, not 
being sufficiently agile to follow, goes to 
the water's edge and jumps into a boat 
her father joining her. The young man 
jumps into the sea, catches his lady love in 
his arms and makes off. The father, left 
alone in the boat, is astonished to see a 
lady also sliding down a pier support, and, 
seeing her grave danger, immediately rows 
closely up and rescues her, thus leaving the 
lovers to get well away. 



a ladder climbs up to the branches of the' 
tree from which she plucks some fruit. A 
young man happens on the scene, and gal- 
lantly lends his services in passing the bas- 
ket up to her, after which act he removes 
the ladder and playfully threatens to leave 
her up there unless she will permit him to 
"pick a cherry" from her lips. She finally 
prevails upon him to permit her to descend' 
— but she refuses the reward that he claims. 
Acceding to her request, he climbs up the 
tree to pick more fruit, and to. punish him 
for, his former bold advances, she removes 
the ladder and struts away, leaving him 
up in the air, wildly gesticulating for relief. 
The last scene is a colored and close view 
of the. buxom maiden munching cherries 
and mischieviously winking and smiling at 
the audience as she decorates her ears and 
neck with ripe cherries. — Kleine Opt. Co. 



her and she is next seen at a picnic Here 
she is so persistently earnest in her en- 
deavor to sell her flowers that she becomes 
obnoxious to a young man, and he throws 
the little bouquet into the water. This last 
hope for a few pennies gone, she wends her 
way to a charity station, where her wants 
are cared for. She is given a bottle of 
medicine and with this she enters the room 
where her sick husband lies abed. She 
goes to his side, and just as she reaches 
him he raises his head for a moment, then 
sinks back, dead. The old woman, left 
alone, bursts into tears of grief. 



"A Soldier Must Obey Orders," another 
Carlo Rossi film, portrays a simple-minded 
recruit. Soldiers' barracks are shown, a 
corporal's guard is being drilled, one of 
whom is very awkward and slovenly, for 
which he is reprimanded and is sent off to 
clean up and report to the commanding 
officer's quarters. 

There, he is ordered to gather all the 
luggage and convey them to. the train on 
which the officer and his wife are to de- 
part 

What follows can better be imagined than 
described. His awkwardness and seeming 
lack of knowledge as to the value of the 
different wearing apparel he displays, in 
packing the luggage, is excruciatingly 
funny. At last all is packed, and loading 
the numerous bundles upon different parts 
of his anatomy, he starts off for the depot 
Dropping, breaking and spoiling his 
charges, he arrives at the train shed just 
as the train pulls out 

The soldier has orders which he has 
learned to obey, so he starts off in a hot 
chase after the train. The next serie*9 of 
views depict the soldier's ridiculous adven- 
tures in trampingHfty-five miles through the 
country— -each adventure lightens his load 
and finally he reaches the quarters of his 
superior, who, with his wife, are anxiously 
awaiting the arrival of their baggage. 
Their dismay and disappointment is very 
keen indeed, upon beholding the faithful 
orderly appear on the scene with the re- 
mains of the baggage — a tiny fruit basket. 
As a balm for their wounded feelings, they 
"take it out" of our faithful hero. — Kleine 
Opt. Co. 

"When Cherries are Ripe," Carlo Rossi 
film, opens with a farm yard scene from 
which a pretty maiden, basket on arm, 
heads for the woods to pick fruit The 
-course takes her through woods abound- 
ing in beautiful rustic scenes. Finally 
reaching the objective spot, she leaves her 
1>a5ket on the- ground and witk ^he- aid of 



Pathe's productions this week are "The 
Pearl Fisher." A fishei-man is lying on a 
river bank, apparently despondent at his 
poor catches, and he falls asleep. Suddenly, 
on the opposite bank there appears a beau- 
tiful rainbow, in the center of which is en- 
throned the queen of the deep, with her 
maids in waiting. She calls to the slum- 
berer and tells him of the wonderful pearl 
riches . secreted at the bottom of the ocean. 
With this the vision vanishes, and the fish- 
erman, charmed by the scene, dives into the 
water. He is seen going headforemost to 
the bottom, his body descending through all 
manner of subterranean caverns and past 
weird and curious fish. He finally reaches 
bottom, begins to wander about among the 
mysterious halls, where countless varieties 
of plants, shells and sea monsters are to be 
found on every hand. On he goes, when 
suddenly, from a huge starfish, there ap- 
pears a fairy or goddess, who takes him 
further into the wonders of the caverns. 
She finally leads him into an enormous hall, 
where massive oysters open and from theii 
shells step a number of pretty girls. The 
fisherman is charmed and bewildered by 
the pretty spectacle, and the girls execute 
a dainty dance round him. But he wan- 
ders on, and the next view shows an enor- 
mous oyster. The shell opens, disclosing 
the fisherman asleep inside, clutching a num- 
ber of wonderful pearls. He awakens, and 
pressing the wonderful necklace to his 
breast, hurries out of the. cavern. Now all 
of the spacious corridors become filled with 
torrents of fire, but he hurries on and is 
soon scrambling up the bank of the stream. 
Still holding tight the necklace, he hurries 
to the home of his sweetheart, and as soon 
as he places it about her neck she becomes 
an elegantly robed lady. In a twinkling 
his appearance, too, changes to one of royal 
splendor, and the entire aspect of the house 
is transformed, so that it resembles a. pal- 
ace. Here the fairy of the sea again ap- 
pears and the film ends in a scene of tri- 
umph, which is graced by many tableaux 
of pretty dancing maidens. And "The 
Poor Old Couple. An old, sick man and 
his faithful wife are seen in their home, 
where the latter, realizing that she must 
have funds to save her helpmate's life, bun- 
dles up some old clothes and is next seen 
at the pawnbroker's. The clerk inspects 
the little parcel, then curtly informs her 
that he can make no offer for it. Down- 
cast and despairing, she next goes into the 
street and two clothes cashers, having pity 
on her, give her a small sum of money for 
the parcel. With this money she goes to a 
florist's and succeeds in purchasing a few 
little flowers ; with the little bunch of blos- 
soms she. goes to a park and endeavors to 
dispose of them; but a cruel officer expels' 



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her dog. There she romps with her pet 
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tirely cut off. 

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to the land; instantly he is off, swimming 
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they plunge. . 

"The horse soon reaches the rock, which 
he has much difficulty in approaching, but 
finally the little girl succeeds in getting 
upon his back, and is then swiftly borne to 

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df intelligence in dumb animals, this film 
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B10GRAPH. 

The Elopement 693 ft 

Wife Wanted 848 ft. 

Under the Old Apple Tree.. 378 ft. 

Yale Laundry 805 ft. 

Love Mictodc b7u tl. 

Terrible Ted 7v2 ft. 

Aa Ai'cadian Elopement..... 715 ft. 

Lens and the Beaux 413 ft 

Neighbor. 135 ft. 

The Tired Tailor's Dream.. 625 ft. 
The Hypnotist's Revenge. .1030 ft. 

Deaf Mutes' Ball 790 ft. 

Esciting Night of Their 

Honeymoon 292 ft. 

The Model's Ma 233 ft. 

Doll* in Dreamland 752 ft. 

CARLO ROSSL 

A Soldier Must Obey Orders.. 

When Cherries Are Ripe 

EDISON. 

The Trainer's Daughter 800 ft. 

Three American Beauties... 85 ft. 

Parsifal 1975 ft 

Pan! Revere'. Ride — -SiS ft. 

Jack the Kisser 755 ft 

A Race for Millions 975 ft 

The Rivals 780 ft 

Stage Struck ...785 ft 

Nine Lives of • Cat 955 ft 

Jamestown Exposition. 500 ft 

Lost in the Alps.. 830 ft 

Panama Canal Scenes and 

Incident. 1355 ft 

Daniel Boone; or, Pioneer 

Day. in America 1000 ft 

Teddy Bean 935 ft 

ESSANAY. 

The Eleventh Hoar 850 ft 

Unveiling McKinley Memor- 
ial .... 1000 ft 

Hey, There! Look OutI 400 ft 

99 in the Shade 

The Vagabond 770 ft 

A Free Lunch — ^ 

The Street Fakir 

The Dancing Nig 387 ft 

Life of a Bootblack 726 ft 

Mr. Inquiiitivi ............ 530 It. 

Slew Bat Sare 647 ft 

A« Awful Skate.. 683 ft 

GATJMONT. 

Colonial Soldier 650 ft 

Stolen Shoes 417 ft 

Grandfather and Kittens.... 227 ft 

Irresistible Piano 420 ft 

Episode of Paris Commune . . 294 ft 
Who Has Stolen My Bicycle?.257 ft 

A Good Husband 344 ft 

Raising the Wind 367 ft 

A Wig Made to Order 354 ft 

The White Shoes; or. Look- 
ing for His Banknote 317 ft 

A Rolling Bed 340 ft 

T e Lost Baas Dram; or. 

Where Is That Louise?... 534 ft 
Grandfather and the Kitten. .244 ft. 

The Bomb 314 ft 

Turning the Tables 347 ft 

The Stolen Shoes 434 ft 

The Adventures of a Bath 

Chair 560 ft 

The Absent-Minded Professor. 504 ft 
Onions Make People Weep.. 544 ft 

The Irresistible Piano 437 ft 

The Athletic Dude 500 ft 

Floor Polisher 234 ft 

The Thieving Umbrella 407 ft 

Towed by an Automobile. .. .424 ft 
Who Has Stolen My Bicycler.274 ft 

The Glue. 467 ft 

A Four- Year-Old Heroine. . .427 ft 
An Episode of the Paris Com- 
mune ..310 ft' 

Volunteer's Betrothal 684 ft 

Naval Maneuvers 567 ft 

Jealousy Punished 257 ft 

Smoke without Fire... 257 ft 

Asking His Way 724 ft 

Returning Good for Evil.... 434 ft 
Late for His Wedding 384 ft 



Madame Goes Shopping;.... 274 ft 

The Good Wine 237 ft 

lhe Motorcyclist 247 ft 

A Modern Mother.. 384 ft 

GOODFELLOW. 

Faith's Rewards 

Mixed Pickles 

Smueeling Chinese into 

U. S. A ; 805 ft. 

Getting Even 625 ft 

That Dog Gone Dog 672 ft 

Goldstein's Luck. .••••••••• . 

A Disastrous Flirtation 825 ft 

Thursday Is My Jonah Day. 675 ft 
It Served Them Right. .... .860 ft 

KALfcM COMPANY <INC). 

Ben Hur 1000 ft 

School Days 470 ft 

Lost Mine. .455 ft- 

Dramatic Rehearsal 105 ft 

Woman, Cruel Woman 315 ft 

The Rival Motorists .555 ft 

His Affinity .'— — 

Troubles ot a Tramp - 

The Gold Brick 705 ft 

It Was Motber-in-Law 160 ft 

Nathan Hale 750 ft 

Red Man's Way 680 ft 

Chinese Slave Smuggling. . .650 ft 

Amateur Detective 232 ft 

Nature Fakers. 490 ft 

Wooing of Miles Standish. .720 ft 

keggy's Camping rarty 70S ft 

Who'll Do the Washing?.... 59S ft 

One-Night Stand .....760 ft 

The Sea Wolf 655 ft 

The Book Agent 720 ft 

The Parson's Picnic 670 ft 

The Tenderfoot 850 ft 

Off for the Day 670 ft 

The Pony Express Rider.... 880 ft 

The Gentleman Farmer..... 720 ft 

LUBIN. 
How Brown Saw the Baseball 

Game 350 ft 

Neighbors Who Borrow..... 493 ft. 

The Foundling 828 ft 

Harbor Pirates 695 ft 

The Lost Collar Button 360 ft 

The New Arrival 316 ft 

Moses Sells a Collar Button. 155 ft 
The Blacksmith's Daughter. .845 ft 

The New Apprentice 530 ft 

Grandpa's Vacation 690- ft 

Wanted: A Husband 565 ft 

The Actor Annoys the Board- 
ers 210 ft 

A Misunderstanding 240 ft 

Gypsy's Revenge 900 ft 

HUB. 

A Forester Made King 458 ft 

Good Glue Sticks 311 ft 

Seek and Thou Shalt Find — 

Trouble 88 ft 

Sightseeing Through Whis- 
key .353 ft 

Shakespeare Writing Julius 

Caesar ...344 ft 

Satan in Prison ..300 ft 

A Story of Eggs 192 ft 

Hamlet Prince of Denmark. 570 ft 

Drink 312 ft 

Bewildering Cabinet 370 ft 

A New Death Penalty 400 ft 

How Bridget's Lover Es- 
caped 500 ft 

The Skipping Cheese 280 ft 

Robert Macalre & Bertrand.1060 ft. 

MILES BEOS. 

The Blackmailer 585 ft 

Petticoat Regiment 785 ft 

Babes in the Woods 378 ft 

Once Upon «a Time There 

Was 867 ft 

For a Woman's Sake 497 ft 

His First Topper 255 ft 

Invalid's Adventure. ....... . 

Cheekiest Man on Earth.... 
Babes in the Woods 



Female Regiment 

Arrival of the Lusitania.... 

"Once Upon a Time There 
Was — "' 

For a Woman's Sake 

Great Lion Hunt 700 ft 

Female Wrestlers. 508 ft. 

Happy Bob as Boxer 262 ft. 

PATHE. 

The Pearl Fisher 524 ft 

The Poor Old Couple ..410 ft. 

Doings of a Maniac 426 ft. 

Bobby's Practical Jokes 393 ft. 

An Exciting Ride 213 ft 

Modern Hercules at Worx...229 ft 
Vour Wife Is Unfaithful to 

Us 393 ft. 

Ups and Downs of a Hat. ...377 ft 



Jps 
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The Clock-Maker's Secret. .. .803 ft 
Wood Industry in Norway . . 328 ft. 

Economical Trip 278 ft 

Master in General 295 ft. 

The Cupboard 459 ft 

The Baboon 393 ft 

Enchanted Pond 196 ft 

Airship Thieves 246 ft. 

The Plank. 229 ft 

Little Conjurer 246 ft 

Ali Baba and the 40 Thieves. 108 2 ft 

The Pirates 541 ft 

The Innkeeper's Wife 442 ft 

Inexhaustable Barrel .......295 ft- 

Chemist's Mistake 262 ft 

Tipplers Race 377 ft 

Mysterious Boudoir 246 ft. 

Inkeeper and Wife 442 ft 

Cripple's Duel 377 ft 

Artistic Woodcarver 311 ft 

Satan at Play 656 ft 

A Quiet Hotel ....344 ft 

Burglary by Motor 426 ft 

Her First Bike Ride 344 ft 

Pleasant Thoughts ..213 ft. 

Magic Lantern ....,-..213 ft- 

My Mother-in-Law .311 ft 

Red Riding Hood 328 ft 

Andalusian Dances 344 ft 

THEO. PATHE. 

T. P.— PARIS. 

Brain Storm 517 ft 

Who Owns the Pear?... -....234 ft 

Unlucky Substitution 517 ft 

The Blacksmith's Strike.... 1067 ft 

Too Many Children 734 ft 

Governess Wanted. ........ .517 ft. 

Cream-Eating Contest Ill ft 

Non • Commissioned Officers' 

Honor 800 ft 

Interesting Reading 184 ft. 

Clever Detective. 700 ft 

SELIG. 

Wooing and Wedding of a 
Coon 



What a Pipe Did ; 465 tt 

•A Southern Romance 590 ft 

Mishaps of a Baby Carriage. 460 ft 

The Girl and the Judge 835 ft 

Motoring Under Difficulties. .450 ft 

A Life for a Life 

Cab 23 755 ft 

All's Well that Ends Well... 600 ft 
Grand Canyon of Arizona. . .600 ft 

Holler Skate Crase 500 ft 

The Onion Fiend 425 ft 

The Matinee Idol 480 ft 

The Bookrrorm 445 ft . 

Western Justice 700 ft 

The Masher. 440 ft 

One of the Finest 535 ft 

The Bandit Ring 1000 ft 

SOCIETY ITALIAN CINES. 

Venetian Baker 765 ft 

Watchmaker's Secret 772 ft" 

In the Dreamland 387 ft 

Where Is My Head? 153 ft 

Monk's Vengeance.......... 204 ft J 

Stolen Chicken. 272 ft 

Modern Samson 420 ft 



Hunting the Devil 291 ft. 

Electric Pile. ...172 ft. 

Gitana .•...•••••••••••••••912 as 

Kidnapping a Bride 530 ft 

Fountains of Rome 215 ft 

Slavery of Children ..536 ft 

The Fireman 295 ft 

Modern Youth 1082 ft. 

Ragpicker's Daughter 694 ft 

Little Fregoli 245 ft 

File de Chiffonier 694 ft 

URBAN-ECUP9E. 

The Tattler. 394 ft 

Misadventures of a Street 

Singer 307 ft. 

Unlucky Trousers 280ft 

Seedham Boys' Aquatic 

Snorts '....434 ft 

Bad Boy's Joke 487 ft 

Daughter's Lover in Difficul- 
ties 447 ft 

Stolen Child's Career 614 ft. 

French Recruit .667 ft 

Comrade Rations 320 ft 

Simple- Minded Peasant 667 ft 

King Edward on H. M. S. 

Dreadnought 534 ft 

Launch of the British Battle- 
ship Bellerophon ........427 ft 

Anonymous Letter 434 ft 

Accidents Will Happen 474 ft 

Through Hong-Kong. 627ft 

Picturesque Brittany 320 ft 

De Beers Diamond Mines 

(Kimberly, S. A.) 387 ft 

Picturesque Wales 903 ft 

Slate Quarries in North 

Wales ;.867ft 

There is a Rat in the Room. .200 ft 

Farmer Giles' Geese 247 ft 

Rubberneck Reuben 254 ft 

VITAGRAPH. 

The Need of Gold 475 ft. 

Laughing Gas ....400 ft 

The Burglar and the Baby.. 375 ft 

Under False Colors 575 ft 

The Despatch Bearer 725 ft 

A Fish Story 450 ft 

A Crazy Quilt 400 ft 

The Twin Brother's Joke. ..600 ft 

A Little Hero 300 ft 

The Kitchen Maid's Dream.. 400 ft 

The Soldier's Dream. 300 ft 

The Veiled Beauty 600 ft 

The Kitchen Maid's Dream.. 400 ft 

The Inquisitive Boy 500 ft 

The Masquerade Party 530 ft 

The Piker's Dream 600 & 

Gypsy's Warning... 285 ft 

The Mfll GirLTT; 700 ft. 

WILLIAMS, BROWN & EARLE. 
The Sticky Bicycle 495 ft 

Rebellious Schoolgirls 100 ft 

Serving a Summons. .. .....190 ft 

A Soldier's Jealousy 400 ft 

Drink 200 ft 

Little Meg and. the Wonder- 
ful Lamp ." 525 ft. 

Too Devoted Wife 375 ft 

Sham Sword Swallower, . . .350 ft 

A Day of His Own 330 ft 

Modern Don Juan 375 ft 

Cricket Terms Illastrated...230 ft 

Mischievous Girls.. 250 ft 

A Seaside Girl 325 ft 

Don't Go to Law 250 ft. 

A Sailor's Lass 300 ft 

A Llodsm Don Juan 375 ft 

WDd Animals 650 a 

Just in Time 540 ft 

Dick Turpin 525 ft. 

The Porfo Babies 525 ft 

The Comic Duel 270 ft, 

Bertie'. Love-Letter — 

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PARSIFAL 

, " Richard Wagner's (Masterpiece 

SYNOPSIS OF SCENES, 

Klingsor seeks admission to the Holy Grail — Evil summons Kun- 
dry — Herzeloid appears with the child Parsifal — Crowning of Am- 
fprtas — Wounding of Amfortas — Carrying Amfortas to his bath — 
Kundry brings relief to Amfortas — Parsifal reproached for killing 
the Swan — Kundry succumbs to Evil — Knights entering the Holy 
Grail — Parsifal unmoved — Klingsor summons Kundry — Parsifal en- 
ters the Magic Garden — Kundry kisses Parsifal — Parsifal calls upon 
the Saviour — Parsifal repulses Kundry — Klingsor hurls the Sacred 
Spear — Destruction of the Magic Garden— Guernemanz restores 
Kundry — Parsifal appears with Sacred Spear — Kundry washes Par- 
sifal's feet — Amfortas tears open his wound — Parsifal heals Am- 
fortas — Parsifal becomes King of the Holy Grail. 

In "Parsifal" we offer the greatest religious subject that has been 
produced in motion pictures since the Passion Play was first pro- 
duced by the Edison Company about eight vears ago, and there 
has been a constant demand for this picture during all these years, 
and continuing up to the present day. At the same time, there has 
been not only a demand, but a long-felt want for a new religious 
picture of interest and merit similar to the Passion Play. 

In "Parsifal" we believe we have filled this want. A large amount 
of time, labor and money has been expended in producing this dra- 
matic production used for taking these pictures, the company hav- 
ing played "Parsifal" for several seasons. The result is, that we 
have produced a picture both dramatically and photographically 
perfect, which we offer to our customers and tbe public with every 
confidence that it will be received accordingly. 

With each film we furnish a complete, illustrated lecture, giving 
a historical sketch of the life of Wagner and his works, the story 
of "Parsifal," and & synopsis of the different scenes. This lecture 



is a special feature. It is in itself a literary work of merit, and 
every exhibitor will find it of material assistance and value in con- 
nection with the picture. We also furnish a musical score for the 
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Som& Careless Operators, - 

We were paying a visit to one of our advertisers the 
other day, and he called our attention to a reel of film 
just returned from a. nickelodeon. The film was abso- 
lutely new, never used before, and yet this film was use- 
less for any further exhibition. It was scratched from 
beginning -to finish in so disgraceful a manner that none 
but an arrant ignoramus of the value of film could have 
treated it so. A little time spent on wiping the machine, 
cleaning off all dust, and careful oiling, would obviate 
all scratches, or a good brush used on the velvet guides 
after each reel has been run through. 

On another occasion we were shown a new film of 
which some three to four hundred feet had been broken 
all down the sprocket perforations. Film that breaks 
lie this is shoddy, cheap and nasty. We have been try- 
ing to find out who manufactures this sort, but so far 
have failed. We have the assurance from Eastman Com- 
pany that it does not emanate from them. Even in a cast 
'" e this, when the operator sees the result he ought to 



at once stop and examine his sprocket, which may be out 
of gear and needs but the adjustment of a screw or two 
to again put it in order. Several exhibitions we have 
visited of late were very poor; one operator was working 
away at the crank and the machine was running heavily 
and groaning as, if it was grinding corn, going off in 
leaps and bounds, giving a jerky, blurred picture on the 
screen, and what we were waiting for and expecting, soon 
came to pass — the film broke three times and there was 
a long, dreary wait after each break. The exhibition, 
which would ordinarily have taken fifteen minutes, occu- 
pied forty, and the audience went out with a sigh of 
relief. We spoke to the proprietor, and he said he had 
tried five operators and was giving this man a good 
salary, as he was supposed to be an expert. (He was, at 
carelessness.) Another exhibition was showing what was 
supposed to be a funeral procession, and the horses were 
walking at a sedate, stately pace, or ought to have been, 
but in this case they slid along the screen in a most ludi- 
crous manner that brought a satirical laugh from the 
audience. The next picture was a hunting scene, and 
here the operator reversed the whole performance. If 
operators will only bear in mind that the camera goes at 
one even rate "of speed and fully catches all the action 
necessary, then if they will try and get this even rhythm 
.of speed in their machines, they will secure the true life- 
like motion their pictures ought to depict. 

Another defect very noticeable is the manner of oper- 
ating the arc. We have seen rainbows in the sky, black 
patches in the center, and ghostly images galore. When 
we have spoken to the operator he has said : "Oh 1 it is 
the glasses that ain't just right." The condensers have 
nothing to do with the effect on the light. Each- operator 
ought to know how to center his arc so that only a white 
light is seen on the screen ; it is an easy matter to adjust 
the light to or from the condensor, up or down, right or 
left, until it is perfect. An operator does not know his 
business until all these little details are as simple as 
ABC to him. Another point we wish to touch upon is 
the fire risk. We were told about a fire that occurred in 
Pennsylvania in a complete fireproof box. No damage 
was done except to the film, the operator escaping with a 
few slight burns. His explanation of the fire was that 
the rapid friction in the take-up gear caused it to spark- 
and set itself on fire. We told our informant to tell that 
story to the marines. The operator is known to be a 
most inveterate smoker — in fact, he often goes to bed 
with a cigarette — and our contention is that his cigarette 
is responsible for the damage and that he ought to seek 
occupation in another sphere, or give up smoking. 

A Good Organization 

would know how to deal with such as we have described, 
'and unless they improved they would be given march- 
ing orders to get another job. We commend the two let- 
ters from correspondents on another page to the earnest 
consideration of every operator, and if the whole of the 
known 5,000 operators would join hands, they would 
command recognition in the Federal Union under a sep- 
arate and distinct flag of their own, and secure the elim- 
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How the Cinemato^rapher WorKs. 

If you happen to look out your windows any of these 
fine mornings and see a "real gent" attired in full evening 
dress crr.-'ly choking a be-u-ti-ful damsel right out on 
the sidewalk or a villainous faced man with a cruel black 
mustache beating a poor little match girl over the head 
with a baseball bat, take one more look before you rush 
to the telephone and tell the police that a blood-curdling 
crime is being pulled off right before your very hands 
and face. 

Chicago has become one of the great centers of the 
motion picture industry, second only to Paris. Here, 
right in the streets of Chicago or in the country just 
outside, are made the pictures that you see in lectures, 
theaters, vaudeville-houses and 5-cent amusement halls. 

There is such a demand for new pictures all the time 
from these various sources that the firms who make a 
business of supplying the amusement-seeking world with 
new and startling motion pictures are busy all the time 
on fresh subjects. 

A moving picture film is only a group of several 
thousand photographs that are thrown on the screen in 
such rapid succession that the eye is deceived into think- 
ing it sees real motion. 

But a photograph reproduces only what has actually 
happened, so that all the thrilling scenes represented in 
a motion picture series have really occurred somewhere. 
It is the manufacture of these occurrences so that the 
camera can reproduce them that is the most serious part 
of the motion picture firm's business. 

Anybody can go any day and get a picture of the new 
County 'building, or the sea lions in Lincoln Park, or a 
picnic on the Wooded Island. People sit in front of a 
screen at the vaudeville-houses and recognize in the back- 
ground of the pictures Chicago streets and buildings, but 
they see strange and weird occurrences that in all their 
experience they never have witnessed in Chicago, and 
they wonder how the miracle is wrought. 

WEIRD HAPPENINGS TO ORDER. 

The motion picture man is able to observe these strange 
phenomena and have his machine right on the spot to get 
them because he makes the weird happenings to order. 

The "real gent" in the evening dress who chokes the 
be-u-ti-ful lady at 10 o'clock in the morning — a most un- 
seemly hour for a "real gent" to wear a full dress, let 
alone to choke a real lady — has been carefully rehearsed 
to do this cruel deed by the motion picture men. 

The clothes the "real gent" wears are property clothes 
owned by the motion picture man, and so is the near- 
Worth costume that adorns the beautiful lady. 

The "real gent" is furious in his anger. Why not? He 
gets $4 a day for doing that. If you are a theatrical 
person, and your show has closed or busted, and there 
is no engagement in sight, there is a lot of choking you 
would do for $4 a day. 

•The biggest motion picture, firm in the city has its 
■ machine operators out every day with a company of 
thespians who are willing to fall in /the lagoon and be 
rescued, chased madly down the street, be carried by 
brave firemen from burning houses or beat a match girl 
over the head with her own crutch. 

The most important man around a motion picture 
establishment, next to the proprietors themselves, is the 
man who originates the story which the motion pictures 
are to tell. He is at once playwright, producer, property 
man. mistress of the wardrobe and stage manager. His 
first work is to think out something that will be full of 



human interest and that can be told through the medium- 
ship of the pictures. He either writes out his plot or else 
thinks it all out carefully and carries the details in his 
mind. Then he sends around and engages the people 
needed for that particular set of pictures. 

In Paris there are regular companies of motion picture 
posers, who do nothing else but act in front of motion 
picture machines. In Chicago the posers are changed 
frequently, so as not to have the same faces in the various 
picture sets. 

All the performers are actors. Some of them are plav- 
ing regularly in theatrical companies around the city, and 
go out to pose in front of the motion picture cameras to 
earn a little extra money, besides getting an outing and 
a new experience. Other actors are those appearing at 
the vaudeville shows, usually in the class known as 
chasers, although af ten 'actors of established reputation 
will pose for the sake of the advertising that pictures wiD 
give them. Actors out of work" and looking for quick 
money always call around at the motion picture houses. 
So that it is not difficult to obtain plenty of capable people 
to act out the motion picture story. 

- • SETTING FOR BANK ROBBERY. 

The motion picture playwright selects his people for 
any certain set of pictures he wishes to make and notifies 
them of the hour they are to assemble anywhere. Then 
with a couple of assistante he gets out the costumes and 
properties that will be needed and selects the places re- 
quired to furnish a proper setting for the; story. 

If he has a scheme for a set of pictures representing 
a bank robbery he will call up banks in the suburbs anil 
ask if he can please rob them. 

It may be a story that involves a church wedding, so 
arrangements must be made with a church sexton to get 
into a church. 

Every day the motion picture people are out at work. 
One day they are busy on a thrilling story of a train rob- 
bery and go to a small station where they have arranged 
to have a train run along on a side track and be robbed. 
The next day a funny tramp story may be worked out 
in a fashionable neighborhood, and the day after the 
troubles of a picnic party may be worked out under some 
of the big trees along the Des Plaines. 

One day last week a company started out to the Soutb 
Side to depict a story representing the troubles a fat 
boarder had with flies at a Summer resort. The first 
concern of the manager was to get an old-fashione< 
frame house that would look like a typical Summci 
boarders' paradise. He heard of one near Thirty-seventt 
street and Ellis avenue, and so after his company Ha< 
assembled he put them on a Cottage Grove avenue cai 
with that place in view. 

Besides the actors there were the motion picture oper- 
ators lugging mysterious black bags containing theii 
machines. Then there were assistants with signs, cos 
tumes and various properties. After the company ha< 
taken their seats in the car the manager outlined the plot 

LIVELY SUMMER BOARDERS SCENE." 

"Now, say, everybody, get together," said the manager 
"This is going to be called 'The Troublesome Fly,' « 
'Fun at the Boarding-House,' or something like that, It* 
great. Going to be a regular scream if you peopl< 
ginger up a little bit and throw some life into it. N<~ 
here's the dope: There's a fat guy, that'll be }'i 
George, who comes out in front of this hotel joint, and 
say, the flies don't do a thing to him. See? A great b 
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so as to buzz around his head. He fights it off and gets 

mad and claps at the fly with his paper and hits some 

other people and gets into a fight and all kinds of trouble. 

Great. What? 
"Well, then the village cut-up — that's the 'rube' part 
you, Gordon — gets busy and puts fly paper over all 
„ benches and the steps, and when the borders come and 

the girls and boys chin each other and make dates they 

jet stuck on the fly paper. What?" 
"Not any for mine," spoke up a blonde-haired lady, 
ho used to play leading juvenile in the Marked for Life 

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"I did a stunt like that with a motion picture bunch 
ast Summer and, say, that fly paper stuff didn't do a 
hing but put a brand new pongee of mine on the blink. 

onest, I scrubbed that skirt with turpentine and gas- 

ine. but, say, what do you think took it off ? Just com- 
non every-day boarding-house butter. . But T hain't got 
ie butter off yet and " \ 

"Cut out the weeps, Molly," said the manager coldly. 

f you don't like the fly paper to stick to your dress 
e can just have it pinned on. Well,!* when the couple 
ake a walk with the fly paper sticking to 'em, there's a 
ilace for the big laugh. What ? You see the first couple 
;o prancing along giving each other hot air about being 
he swellest ever arid not knowing anything about the 
y paper. 

"Then the next couple, come in sight and they see the 
y paper oii the first two and holler and laugh and have 
its. See ? Then the third couple come along and they 
lave a fit at the second couple, and then the fourth couple 
hey pretty near die laughing at the paper on the third 
ouple. And you see they've got it on, too. Great. 
Vhat? 

"The last act is where the rube goes to sleep on a 
ch under the window at the boarding-house and 
itorge opens the window and. slings out all the fly paper 
n the rube and it sticks to his clothes and to his hair." 

"Nix," said the gentleman who was to play the rube ; 

aintively. "Butter ain't served regularly at my board 1 
-house. Nix fly paper in my hair. 
Now don't get peevish, Gordon," said the manager 

a mollifying tone. "I've got a wig for you and I want 

• paper on it. Now cheer up." 

Everybody cheered up and the' party arrived finally at 

ie old-fashioned frame house where the pictures' were 

be taken. The people who lived in the house were not 
nthusiastic over the idea for awhile, but the manager, 

ho is skilled in borrowing backgrounds, succeeded - in 

rsuading them that no damage would be done to the 

ouse and that the neighbors would be treated to a mag- 

ificent performance free of charge. 

The properties were immediately opened up and a big 
ign put on one of the posts at the side of the steps, 

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The rube grabbed a wig and a pair of short trousers out 

the baggage and disappeared into a woodshed. The 
omen adjourned into the house and re-marcelled their 
arcels and powdered their noses and- then reappeared. 
he camera brigade unlimbered and made ready to go 
'to action. 

AH these mysterious proceedings, especially the ap- 
•arahce of the rube in his short trousers and red wig, 

used great excitement in the neighborhood. First, two 



small boys playing in the street stopped in wonderment 
and gazed silently on the scene. A newsboy came along, 
took one look and then yelled to a boy back in the alley: 
"Come on, see de free show." Windows went up all 
around and heads popped out to see where the fire was 
and if the patrol wagon had taken the man away yet. 

George, who was down for the first act, took off his 
ioat, grabbed a newspaper and began rehearsing 
George had to have a bench to sit on. The family who 
had loaned the house were appealed to, but they had no 
bench. The eagle eye of the manager ranged around the 
neighborhood until it rested on a nice red settee on a 
porch. "The very thing," he said. 

The manager went across the street and promptly bor- 
rowed the settee, the woman who answered the doorbell 
seeming to be too much surprised to make any resist- 
ance. The settee was planted in front of the borrowed 
boar-ding-house and George pulled off his coat, flourished 
his newspaper and dashed up and sat down. The man- 
ager stood off at one side and made suggestions. 

"That's the stuff, George. That's right. Mop youi 
bald head ; you're hot, see. Now business with the news- 
paper. Now, the fly. Fine." 

One of the assistants had mounted to the top of the 
porch and was lowering a papier mache fly down so that 
it would circle around George's shining dome of thought. 

"Fight it, George," shouted the manager. "Slam your 
paper at the fly. Get mad ; great, get mad some more ; 
oh, fine." 

George and the fly had a desperate fight, and then one 
of the women tripped down at the call of the manager. 

"Now, Maudie, you're one of the boarders, dead swell, 
see, and you don't know George, but you want a place to 
sit down and read a novel ; so up you come, paying no 
attention. to nothing, and you sit down there on the bench 
with George. Now, George, you keep reading and you 
don't see Maudie. After she sits down the fly gets busy 
some more, and you shlam the paper around to hit the fly 
and you slap Maudie in the face with the paper. See." 

Georgie saw, Maudie saw, and the man working the 
exaggerated fly also observed. So Maudie sat down and 
was duly slapped with Georgie's paper and flounced away 
in high scorn, to the great delight of the ever-growing ; 
crowd in the street. . j 

.. "Now," said the manager, "are you all ready with the 
machines. All right. Now, this time we're making the 
picture. Remember, action's the word. Act, act, act. 
Work your hands and your face and your eyes. Plenty 
of lively action. Now, all ready." 

' The. picture machine operators began to grind away 
on the long films on which the photographs were being 
made. 

; . REGULAR RIOT OF ACTION. 

"Get in, George; get in, George," yelled the excited 
manager, hopping up and down. "What's the matter, are 
you going to sleep. That's the stuff. Now, business with 
the paper. Right. Now, fight the fly. Fight him some 
more. Great. Now quiet. Come on, Maudie. Get in, 
get in. Sit right down. Read your novel. Chew your 
gum. Now, George, fight the fly. Soak him. Wave 
your paper. Hit Maudie. Great. Come on, Maudie. 
You're dead sore. Walk out, walk out. Stop." 

So that part of the picture was completed. The man- 
ager and the picture machine operators went into con- 
vention to decide how the next picture was to be taken, 
while the troupe sat around on the steps and told of 
the time they played leads for Charley Frohman and 
made the big hit on Broadway. Maudie glowered "at 



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George and told him it was too bad he didn't have an 
ax instead of a newspaper when he slapped her on the 
bench. George apologized and everybody grew 
confidential. 

"I had the swellest part last year," said the soubrette. 
"I was in the Stung by the- Serpent Company, and, say, 
I had a new gown every act Say, I was a scream. I had 
a song, 'I'm Not a Peroxide Blonde ; Honest, I Was Born 
This Way.' . Say, it was a yell. It killed 'em dead. 
Frohman-: " 

"And to think of me posing for motion pictures," said 
the stately lady on the bottom stairs. "Ain't it awfuL 
Me, that starred all last year in 'Only a Stenographer, 
but All Right at That.' I hope they don't show these 
pictures down on Broadway. Gee, but Mr. Erlanger 

would be mad. Anyhow " 

"Cut out the hard luck lines," shouted the manager, 
sternly. "All on stage for the next act." Everybody sat 
up and took notice. 

"Now, Rube," said the manager. "Business there with 
the fly paper. Scatter four pieces on the bottom step 
and then put four pieces on the settee. Now, first you 
girls come prancing down the steps putting up a lively 
spiel and chewing gum and acting like real swells. You 
don't notice the fly paper, but you come right along and 
sit down on the settee. Then you boys come up the walks 
with your cigarettes, acting like Willies fresh off the 
yacht. 

"You sit down oh the bottom stairs right on the fly 
paper. Then you. do a talk back and forth. You boys 
ask the girls to go for a walk and the girls all nod and 
smile like you're tickled to death. Action, now, plenty 
of it ; and talk. Say any old thing at all ; the idea is to 
move your lips and have it look in the pictures like the 
real thing. All ready. Come on, girls." 

The picture machine men began to grind and* the girls 
came tripping down the steps talking glibly. 

"No, no, no," said the manager, "Honest, this ain't no 
funeral. This is a comic scene. Comic. Get on to that. 
Cheer up, everybody. Come on, now, all laugh. Ha, ha, 
ha. What a happy world. Oh joy, oh joyi Are we 
down-hearted? No I That's the stuff." 

Again the girls stepped lightly down the sairs, smiling 
and chattering. 

"That's right, that's right" The manager pranced 
around and clapped his hands. . "Don't look down. Don't 
notice that fly paper. Laugh, smile, keep it up. Sit 
down. Fine. Now then, Willies. Come ahead. Busi- 
ness there with the cigarettes. Don't look at that fly 
paper. Look at the Lizzies. That's the stuff. Smile, 
everybody. Talk, talk, for the love of heaven, talk. 
Laugh, Sammy, laugh. Say! No, no, no. Stopl" 

The picture machines stopped grinding. 

"Tom," said the manager, with tears in his eyes. "You 
told me you were a comedian." 

"I am," said Tommy, promptly. "I am a scream, all 
right." 

"You wouldn't be a scream at a funeral," said the 
manager. "You've got a face like a death bed confession. 



their hands, would imagine the conversation was some* 
thing like this : 

"Oh, how de do — Wmy, Miss Van Smyth — And if 
that isn't little Lucy Lee — And I thought you were in 
Europe— Oh, this is a lovely place — So like Monte Carlo 
— Yes, papa and mamma are coming out next week—I 
just run up in my machine — Haven't you heard? Why, 
they sent all the presents back — Miss Allyn, you know 
Mr. De Peyton — The best view is from the veranda 
the other side — Oh, let's all walk over— It'll be very 
jolly." And so on. 

UNDER FIRE OF CAMERA. 

What they really did say was more like this: "Pipe 
the lady rubbering out of the window ; she'd be a screams 
in the front row. It's no joke about my sitting on thai! 
fly paper; I'll bet I've ruined this suit — La, la, lum, lum, 
turn, turn, turn. Star light, star bright, very first star! 
see to-night. Two weeks more of the motion picture 
and then back to little old Broadway. Well, just M 
them that you saw me — Look at that boy, Gus. I'll bfl 
he's in the picture — Who's got some of that property] 
chewing gum ? I swallowed mine on that last laughs 
Oh, »New York, Yonkers, Albany, Schenectady, Troy, 
Philadelphia, Scranton, Pittsburgh " and a lot more 

"Now, then, just keep the positions you have and read; 
around and pin the fly paper on," called the manage 
"Don't lose your positions. Hurry up. Everybody ready 
All right -" 

• "Lost my pin," wailed the soubrette. The manage 
clutched a pin from his coat and the soubrette tacked a 
the fly paper. 

"Now, ready," said the manager. "Picture !" 

The machine commenced to grind and the smiles am 
the talk began again. 

"Now, then," shouted the manager fiercely. "Stan 
up and pair off. Each one of you WilHes take a Lizzi 
and walk out of the picture. Don't notice the fly papa 
Come on, now." 

The two groups flowed together, broke into couplf 
and walked out of the picture. 

• "Great," said the manager. "Good work." 

It was hard to find proper setting for the next part 
the picture. The manager wanted a street scene wil 
the couples walking along, each one laughing at the 
paper on the couple in front. But to get a long stri 
scene without flat buildings appearing in the backgrounj 
was difficult. Finally the church on the corner was 
lected. The church made a good background and 
off views of flat buildings. 

SHOWING MADE BY GROUP. 

"Fine," said the manager, "there's always a chu 
in a country town, isn't there? Well, those trees shoi 
and that looks country, too. All ready. Everybody gj 
on that corner. Now, when you pass this paper on 
ground you're in the picture and when you walk 
the corner of the church you're out. Between those 
„ points put in lots of action. 

"All ready, first couple lead off. Walk easily, lool 
at each other and smiling and talking. That's all. N" 



Come on, get in the game. Come on everybody. Laugh, the second couple. Look ahead, you second couple. N< 

you see the fly paper on the first two. That's it P<« 



laugh and talk. All ready. Now then. Lively J 

It was tried all over again. The girls sat on the settee 
and giggled and talked and the men sat on the lower 
stairs and mopped their brows and grinned horribly at 
i the girls and talked. It was a good thing the picture 
( machine didn't record the conversation. Anyone looking 
at the motion picture of "The Troublesome Fly," or 
whatever it is called, and seeing the little group on the 
stairs and the settee, smiling and bowing and waving 



at it. Laugh, roar. That's it. Now the third cou 
You're in the picture now. Hurry up. Point at the 
paper on the couple in front of you. Laugh, fafl 
What's the matter with you people? Your faces fi 
Laugh, laugh. Now the fourth couple. That's it. Gre 
All over." 

For the next picture the manager seized Ellis Pj» 
and had his company parade with locked arms, eig 



across. The company walked away from the cameras 
with the fly paper showing prominently. 

There was an adjournment for lunch in a little restau- 
rant not far away, and after luncheon everybody returned 
to the borrowed boarding-house, and the rube went to 
sleep under the window and the fat man threw fly paper 
on him, and the rube had a terrible struggle in front of 
the cameras to get it off. 

This finished the "Troublesome Fly" set, but the man- 
ager held his company and finished up a set called "For 
Love's Sweet Sake," where the fat actor strangled the 
soubrette right out in plain view of all the horrified spec- 
tators, but before the police could arrive the fat actor 
and the soubrette went over to Cottage Grove avenue to 
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NEW FINDS AMONG PRIMITIVE PEOPLES. 

Ethnologists hunting for new light on the early stages of cul- 
ture now and then discover among the remote tribes of to-day 
mtirely new facts. Dr. Rudolf Poch has had this good fortune 
during his two years' work among the tribes of New Guinea and 
the neighboring islands. Among the mountains of German New 
Guinea he found that the tribes produced fire very readily by 
rubbing a split piece of wood with a rotang rope made from one 
of the varieties of the rattan palm. He says that this method of 
producing fire seems to be widely distributed in the inner parts 
af New Guinea and he knows of no other place where it is prac- 
tised, excepting by some of the Negritos among the mountains of 
the Philippines. 

Dr. P6ch found inland tribes in the northeastern part of 
British New Guinea that wear long and very heavy pigtails. The 
Kworafi, at Cape Nelson in British New Guinea, have a very 
peculiar mourning costume consisting of a cap and'a jacket orna- 
mented with the seeds of the Coix lacryma. The natives were 
pressed with the resemblance of these round, white seeds to 
leavy tear drops. This likeness long ago gave the plant its 
dentine name. 

Dr. P6ch was making excavations near Collingwood Bay. one 
y when he unearthed, besides human skulls and skeletons, a 
rved shell, obsidian implements and ancient pottery of better 
sign and more skilful manufacture than any now produced 
long these tribes. The inhabitants of to-day do not know the 
rt of shell carving nor do they make necks and handles on any 
f their products, though these characterize some of the pottery 
inearthed. The natives have no traditions relating to such ob- 
jects, and Dr. Poch is credited in Europe with having discoverd 
races of an old, forgotten and in some respects higher culture in 
"ew Guinea. 

Dr. Poch took phonographic records of the native languages, 
ales and songs. In the songs melody is very little developed, 
t the rhythms are often perfect, though sometimes surprisingly 
triplicated. It was very difficult to get a good quality of .cine- 
atograph exposures, for in their dances and some other move- 
ents which the explorer especially desired to record the natives 
ere always moving over considerable distances and he had to 
follow with his machine. About" 60 per cent, of his moving pie- 
ces, however, came out well. These two inventions for record- 
g sound and movement are among the most valuable appliances 
n the study of primitive peoples. 

*. * » 

."If any man should show that picture to my child I would 
all him. The town is full of this sort of places and they are 

Hoing incalculable harm. The police should close every one of 

sthem." 

,That is what Police Magistrate Crane said in the Harlem 

'ourt, New York, in passing on the case of William Short, a 

wing picture exhibitor of no West 116th street, whom he re- 

anded for trial in $1,000 bait Short was arrested for exhibit- 

jjfig a picture of the interior of a Chinese opium* den. 

Short's attorney was arguing that while the picture might 
order on the obscene, it was not obscene, when Magistrate 



Crane interrupted him with a question as to whether he was a 
father. When the attorney said he had no children the Magis- 
trate made the declaration quoted. 

* * * 

The Secretary of the Treasury has written a letter to the 
Pittsburg Calcium Light and Film Company to the effect that 
moving picture films sent into Canada for use for a time and 
afterwards returned to the United States, whether of domestic or 
foreign origin, may be exported and returned under the pro- 
visions of Department Circular No. 64 of October 29, 1907. 

* * * 

Butte, Mont., is now maintaining three moving picture theaters, 
in which a series of moving pictures are shown six or seven times 
nightly. The houses seem to be crowded all the time and they 
certainly look like money-making propositions. 

Since the moving picture invention was given to the public it 
has had a marked evolution and now the films give a most per- 
fect reproduction without any strain to the eyes as they did in 
the earlier stages. 

O. N. Olds, the man who had charge of the bench show last 
year, walked into Park Street Moving Picture Theater. His 
dog sneaked behind him. In one of the scenes a bulldog runs 
out and jumps into a pool of water after a stick. When the 
dog was shown on the canvas Olds' canine began to bristle up 
and growl. In spite of attempts to get him out the dog made a 
race for the canvas, and making a vieorous dash for the bull pup, 
went clear through the canvas. The audience went into an 
uproar of laughter. Manager Krieter says it was the prettiest 
exhibition of shadow fighting he ever saw. Then he told Olds 
he wanted $8 for the canvas. Olds said that Krieter should be 
highly complimented by the dog's action, as it proved the realism 
of the scene. Then he shook dice with Krieter to see whether 
he should pay $16 or nothing. Krieter lost. 

That's lucky," said Olds. "I'd have been in a bad fix if I had 
lost. All the money I had was 65 cents." 

Krieter has a shotgun ready for the next dog that gets into 
the house. He declares he wants no further demonstration of 
the "realism" of the moving pictures. 

* * * 

Partial destruction of a downtown landmark and a panic 
among employees of the Twentieth Century Optiscope Company 
resulted from a fire in the structure at 22 to 28 State street 
December 2. The company occupies the second floor. 

Several persons were injured in the panic including R. G. 
Bachman, president of the company, and Policeman James S. 
Knapp, of the Central station, both of whom aided in rescuing 
several women. Mr. Bachman, who lives at .146 Ohio street, was 
wrenched while he was holding a ladder, as he hung from a fire 
escape, to enable several women to reach the ground. The others 
injured were: Mavme McNerney, 25 years old; Elsie Griefen, 
23 years old, and Sadie Grodin, 21 years old. 

The fire is thought to have been caused by the explosion of 
a moving pirture film, which the optiscope company manufac- 
tures. A sheet of flame flashed from a room next to where^ 
Misses McNerney, Griefen and Grodin were working. They 
gave the alarm and ran toward the stairs, but found escape cut 
off, so went to a window. Miss McNerney, in her leao, landed 
at the feet of Assistant Chief Schuettler, who had left a con- 
ference at Chief Shiopy's office when he learned of the fire. 
Misses Griefen and Grodin clung to a sign, while flames shot 
over their heads from the window, until rescued bv firemen. 
While the firemen were saving the women from the State street 
side. Policemen Crook. Wheadon. Donohue and Knapp raised a 
ladder to the front of the building to take down several who 
were clinging to the fire escape. The ladder lacked several feet 
of reaching the frightened women and Policeman Knapp climbed 
on the fire escape. Wrapping his legs about the supports he 
held one end of the ladder while Policemen Wheadon. Crook 
and Donohue held the other. Mrs. R. G. Bachman. wife of the 
president of the company, was taken down this way, as also 
were Miss Katie Mandenmarch and Miss B. M. Moore, a stenog- 
rapher employed by the optiscope company. 

The flames spread to the fourth floor before they were extin- 
guished. The damage done to the building is estimated at $3,000. 

A case is now pending in Muncie, Ind., the outcome of which 
will be watched with interest by a great many people, especially 
those in the moving picture show business. 

The case is a damage suit of the Vaudelle Amusement Com- 
pany, composed of Ernest Miltonberger, Jacob D. Miltonberger 
and James Howe Leffler, against the Globe and Rutgers Fire 
Insurance Company, through Benbow & Benbow, its local 'agents, 
and is being tried m the court of 'Squire Gray. Damages to the 
extent of $198.01 are asked. 

On the evening of April 24, while # the Vaudelle # Theater, a 
place of amusement devoted to the exhibition of moving pictures. 



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has purchased the interest of his former partner and the business which has 
been the most extensive of its kind in the world, has been enlarged in every 

We will, in order to get personally acquainted, as well as present the 
opportunity to prospective customers of looking the ground over fully, 
pay one-half your transportation within a radius of seven hundred 
miles of our Chicago office, it you place your film contract with us. This 
applies only where you actually come to see us and we must be advised by 
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in South Walnut street, was crowded, with patrons, an ex. 
pensive film, "The Passion Play," caught fire and was burned 
The Vaudelle concern carried the fire insurance with the Globe 
and Rutgers Company, but the latter . refused to pay for the 
burned film, contending that the film was the property f » 
Chicago film exchange, and merely rented to the Vaudelle Com- 
pany, and that while it had been burned it was not the propem 
of the local theater and therefore was not insured. The insur- 
ance company on these grounds flatly refused to pay one cent for 
the loss of the film. The Vaudelle was compelled through a con- 
tract with the film exchange to settle for the film. 

The proprietors of Munrie moving picture theaters are great]? 
interested in the outcome of the suit, as they likewise might 
lose considerable money by a similar experience. The film ex- 
changes demand and are given a money guarantee that all their 
property shall be returned in a good condition. If a decision is 
rendered favorable to the insurance company it will mean thai 
the theatrical people will be without protection in the matter c; 
films, and that each film destroyed in any manner will be then- 
loss. 

*' * * 

Most commendable indeed in the trend of the moving pictun 
shows towards the goal of enlightenment and education. 

Elmira, in the past year,_ has had all sorts of pictures offeree 
for the purpose of attracting nickels from their pocket hiding 
places, and the experience of the year has shown the picture ma- 
chine men that the people are demanding a higher class o 
pictures. 

This was demonstrated recently when the "Passion Play" 
turned away hundreds of people eager for the education thai 
came with the witnessing of the reproduction. • And more n 
cently it has been further demonstrated when "Paul Revere'; 
Ride" proved o'ne of the most successful films ever offered t 
this city. . . .' - 

Now there are following some other pictures of educationi 
historical and literary interest. 

And so the picture machines are coming to their own. Thei 
real value and usefulness has been found. Along these lines fbi 
can make for good just- as potently as, by the offering of thox 
films- which have been proscribed by the authorities, they cat 
make for evil. 

Let us have more of this sort of thing. Let the promoters o 
the picture machine enterprises really enter the ranks of th 
educators and work to uplift the minds pf the people at large. 

This is but the opening wedge for the introduction of machim 
as part of our regular educaWmal system. It may be safely pre 
dieted that a few years hence will see their incorporation in th 
schools as part of the essential paraphernalia for the instnictii 
of pupils in matters historical. 

So long as the little picture theaters throughout the countri 
break away from the silly and the sensational pictures and offo 
those which are of real value and of live interest they will I* 
deserving of the support necessary to make them profitabl* 
enough to insure their continuance. — Elmira (N. Y.) Gazette. 

. * * * 

Lynn, Mass. — Moving picture houses, of which there are tes 
in file city, will not be permitted to open their doors hereafta 
on Sundays until 5 o'clock in the afternoon, according to ■ 
edict issued by Mayor Barney, and if any proprietor attempt 
to defy the order the police will be prepared to immediately clc* 
the so-called theaters. In addition to fixing the hour at whid 
performances must begin, Mayor Barney stated that he ■■ 
not permit Sunday evening entertainments of any descriptta 
unless • the entire proceeds are devoted to charitable purposes 
The intervention of the Mayor in the moving picture house mud 
die created excitement among the managers, and before tfc 
trouble, which has been brewing for the past three weeks, i 
adjudicated it is very probable that the Mayor will inform tfe 
picture house proprietors of the details of the stipulations ■ 
which they must conform. It is claimed that the picture liou"* 
have kept many people away from religious services and I 
number of patrons of such amusement places has grown so latf 
that the Mayor felt certain restrictive measures were necessa? 

* * * 

The question whether a license should be granted the Alha 
bra, a moving picture theater at 20 Munroe street. Lynn, Mas 
conducted by Henry Goldberg, has been decided by Sllg 
Barney in favor of Goldberg. Frank S. Whitten, of whom Go* 
berg leased the building, and W. H. White, another occupy 
asked that Goldberg should not get a license, because the insuf 
ance rates of their property were increased by having a move" 
picture place nearby. Mayor Barney decided to grant the beers/ 
the State Building Inspector having ruled that the place was sail 

* * * 

The State Department . of Wilmington issued certificates • 
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corporation which is to engage extensively in that popular amuse- 
ment business of operating nickelodeons. The company is au- 
thorized to manufacture, buy, sell and operate moving picture 
machines. The* capital stock upon which taxes are paid at the 
outset is $35.ooo. 

* * * 

Alfred L. Simpson, New York; to manufacture lantern slides, 
photographer; capital, $5,000. Incorporators: Mortimer Levy, 
1229 Madison avenue; Louis W. Osterweis, 17 East Eighty- 
seventh street; Walter S. Dreyfoos, 42 West Eighty-fifth street, 
all of New York. 

* * * 

Many complaints have come to Mr. Elmendorf, the noted lec- 
turer, since the booklet announcing his lectures on "Old Mexico" 
have been circulated.^ One of the motion pictures to be shown 
is a bull fight before *the young King and Queen of Spain. Mr. 
Elmendorf always has been a subscriber to the funds of the 
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, and says that 
he would not publicly exhibit any picture that would offend the 
most sensitive person, 

* * * 

Every afternoon at 3 o'clock a crowd of over one hundred 
boys between the ages of 6 and 15 may be seen in the assembly 
room of The Sentinel, Knoxville, Tenn., eagerly awaiting the 
beginning of the moving picture show which is daily afforded 
for their amusement. The boys prove an appreciative audience 
and their shouts of laughter and applause may be heard some 
distance. It is a novel sight to see so many of the boys together 
and it has filled them with enthusiasm for their work. Soon after 
they may be seen on the street, rushing here and there, selling 
the papers or making prompt delivery on their routes. The 
moving picture performance is of high grade and usually abounds 
in funny situations. The equipment for it is good and the shows 
are well put on. The shows are given free to every boy who 
handles The Sentinel and the number is increasing daily. For 
the use of the boys games are also furnished, which they have 
much enjoyed, and a circulating library of about two hundred 
excellent boys' books. The assembly room and books and games 
are in charge of a committee of the boys and they take great 
pride in keeping good order. 

[A straw shows which way the wind blows, and the above the 
power and influence of moving pictures. — Ed.] 

* * * . 

Cleveland, O. — Detectives detailed to investigate moving pic- 
ture shows must show real ability as art critics. Recently the 
rolice prosecutors refused to issue a Warrant charging Louis H. 
Becht, manager of the Dreamland picture show at 703 Euclid 
avenue, with showing pictures of crime.: 

Now the plain clothes patrolmen and detectives are delving 
into volumes on "The Period of the Renaissance" and "Tones 
and Coloring of Rembrandt" Essays on the drama are in great 
demand. 

If they expect us to know the difference between a mere 
stage murder and one of those pictured on the films that might 
injure the youthful mind we've got -to study up," declared one 

detective. 

* * * 

In Chicago as an unexpected finale -to the entertainment in a 
five-cent theater at 431 West Madison street a moving picture 
machine exploded. Its two operators were burned, one of them 
severely, and 200 women and children spectators, filing from the 
playhouse, were thrown into an excited stampede for the exits. 
Several added to the alarm by yelling "Fire !" A few children 
sere knocked down, but none was seriously injured. Robert 
Burns, 16 years old, 1433 West Ohio street, and Wilbert Turner, 
25 years old, 849 West Jackson boulevard, were the injured 
operators. Both were burned about the face, neck and arms. 
Burns' condition was said to be critical. A short circuited elec- 
tric current is believed to have caused the explosion. 

* * * 
A fire, which did but slight damage, occurred in the Bijou 

Theater, in the Spooner Building, on North street, last week. 
The blaze was caused by one of the films in the picture machine 
taking fire from an electric wire and some excitement was occa- 
sioned about the place. 

The second performance of the evening had just nicely begun 
and the Miles Standish picture was being shown when the film 
"""as ignited. Robert Blakeney was operating the machine, which 
is stationed in a balcony over the front entrance. This balcony • 
is fireproof and there was no danger, of the flames spreading 
iato the main auditorium, but. the smoke from the burning film 
poured through a small hole into the theater proper and someone 
gave the cry of fire. Edward F. O'Connor, the vocalist at the 
theater, was on the stage at the time, and he endeavored to quiet 
the people and told them there was no danger, but the women, 
of whom there were many in the audience, left their seats and 






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made a rush for the doors. In order to prevent^ a sfcunpedtj 
Mr. O'Connor opened the rear exits and many people pa& 
out through them. No one was injured in the rush and th 
was entirely uncalled for. 

There was considerable smoke in the room; it made its 
through the ventilator in the front of the building and some 
who was passing through North street turned in an alarm 
brought the fire companies to the scene, but the services of . 
firemen were not necessary, although deemed advisable to.t 
chemicals in extinguishing the burning film. 

The magazines in which the films are kept, while the r-ictun 
are being exhibited, are absolutely fireproof, and the balcony i 
which the machine is operated is lined with sheet iron, ro th 
there was no danger of the flames getting outside the enclosun. 

The machine was badly damaged, the loss amounting to aboc 
$100. A new machine was at once ordered by telegraph and i 
was received in time for the performances to go on as us 
next day. « 

Chief Charles Higham made another inspection of the theate 
and he announces that the place in which the machine is locals 
is absolutely fireproof and there can be no danger at any tit 
The films are of celluloid and might be ignited through accideu 
but the management of the theater has taken extraordinary prtl 
cautions to ensure the safety of the patrons of the place, and '4 
gives assurance that there was no occasion for a general alan 
being turned in Tuesday evening. 

The first round of the alarm sounded box 15, and Pho 
patrol and a number of people went to that box, which is locate 
at the corner of North street and Low avenue*. 

Two rosaries, which were lost during the excitement of 
fire, await their owners at police headquarters. 

[If all managers would use the same precautions, all need 
scare would soon pass. We commend the proprietor of the Bija 
as an example. — Ed.] 

* * * 

NEW PICTURE SHOWS. 

Crookston, Minn., is to have a new moving picture show houi 
Messrs. Fred Simmons and Joseph Nault agreed to lease t!:| 
building now occupied as a music store. _ They will start a first: 
class moving picture show and may decide to put on vatidevil'^ 
acts. They will call it the Lyceum Theater and will run a der* 
up-to-date- show. 

Another moving picture show will be installed in Albia, Io 
E. Mart Noble, W. T. Worth and Carl Hammond having fonrn^, 
a company and are preparing the room at present occupied \^\ 
the Hammond music store. The moving picture show that b:£j 
been in operation for some weeks has been coining money and ,v * 
Albia men feel that they will get their share. 

Adrian, Mich., is to have another- five-cent show in the ro 
future. H. E. Haynes has leased a building on South M; 
street and will have installed an up-to-date moving picture 
A stage is to be fitted up in the rear, and 100 of the best 
chairs installed, which will make an ideal little theater. ThL 
program will consist of the best moving pictures obtainable ar. 
also illustrated songs. 

Work on the new. motion picture palace on Market street, no 
Market square, is rapidly progressing. The building will be « 
of the prettiest, as well as the best equipped of any to be four 
in this section of the State. 

The Empire Theater, Atchison, Kan., has been sold to D 
James Merritt, of Oklahoma City, who will open it as a movie 
picture house. 

The New Eureka Five-Cent Theater opened at 34 Congre 
street, Cohoes, N. Y. George H. Roberts, of Massachuset! 
manager. High-class pictures, illustrated songs, etc 

Maurice Boom, with Al Fields, will . open a second Unip 
Theater,- with moving pictures, illustrated songs and three vaui 
ville acts, beginning December 16. The new establishment, wta 
will be operated in conjunction with the house of the same nan 
in Grand street, occupies a store on Avenue A, near Seven! 
street, New York The premises were formerly given over to 

department store. 

* * * 

Santa Barbara, Cal., has two moving picture houses, both I 
10 cents and 15 cents admission; report doing a good busine' 

The Theater La Petite; J. E. Skaggs, lessee; C. J. Mark 
manager ; Paul Denson, pianist and song illustrator ; seats 
capacity, 400 ; has been running since March last with, two shot 
a day and Saturday and Wednesday change (3 reels and 2 songs)| 
have had a very successful season. . I 

The Victory Theater; C. A Rifle, manager; seating capaat| 
350; two shows daily; weekly change, -4 reels and 2 songs; rr*^ 
good business. 

The Santa Barbara Opera House, management of Dowdl £ 
Shaw, closed Saturday, November 30, after a two weeks' ■ 
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So far the moving picture show business upon this Coast has 
not felt the effect of the money scarcity and general business 
depression, and new moving picture houses are continually open- 
ing in the larger towns. 

* * * 

"The management of the Wonderland, 711 Canal street, re- 
quests the presence of the Editor of the Moving Picture World 
at the special performance of the original Passion Play given 
for the benefit of the public school teachers of New Orleans on 
Wednesday and Thursday evenings, December 11 and 12, 1907; 
».he first performance beginning at 7 o'clock, the second at 8 
o'clock and the last performance at 9 o'clock. Prof. Wm. F. 
Wood, of Chicago, will lecture at each performance. This card 
idmits three persons." 

[We thank the management for the above invitation, but dis- 
tance is too great for us to attend. We commend the idea to 
others. — Ed.] 

* * * 

I. W. Ullman, of the Consolidated Film Rental Company, who 
import the celebrated Italian Cines films, is on his way to Europe. 
It is his intention to open branches in London and Paris. This 

augurs well for the future prosperity of the firm. 

* * * 

Alfred Weiss has removed his film renting business from 
Third avenue to 219 Sixth avenue, New York. While one of the 
youngest firms, Mr. Weiss is old in experience, having been for 
the past fourteen years one of the few jobbers commissioned to 
carry the Edison Phonograph. The experience gained in handling 
records and the methods adopted he. is using to carry on the 
film renting. He intends to conduct his business on the system of 
a one-price line, so that all customers will be treated alike. Asso- 
ciated with bim in the business is Mr. L. M. Smith, one of the 
old-time veterans and who, has grown up with the profession, 
who is acting as general manager. 

« « * 

THE SUNDAY SITUATION IN NEW YORK. 

Thirty-five managers, representing practically all the theaters, 
the opera houses and other places of entertainment in New York, 
decided at a meeting at the Hotel Astor to unite in giving New 
York an absolutely closed Sunday. There will be neither vaude- 
ville, orchestra, operatic concerts nor any other entertainment 
of any description given on a stage. 

This decision was reached a few hours after Commissioner 
Bingham had given to the reporters his general order directing 
the force to shut up the amusement places. The Commissioner 
said that Judge O'Gorman's order barred practically everything 
in the nature of a Sunday performance, from a moving picture 
show at the Y. M. C. A. to a symphony concert at Carnegie 
Hall. He thought that private entertainments such as are given 
by the Liederkranz on Sunday nights would come within the 
scope of the ruling made by Judge O'Gorman. It is understood, 
however, that no attempt will be made to prohibit music in the 
hotels or restaurants. These are regarded as clearly outside the 
lawl 

* * * 

Police Commissioner Bingham December 7 issued orders which, 
if executed, will make to-morrow as blue a Sunday as any of 
the days in "ye olde New England tymel" 

"No public entertainment of any land, class or quality is to be 
permitted !" 

That is the order. 1 • 

And the Commissioner explained to the nineteen inspectors of 
police that "public entertainment meant anything which enter- 
tains the public." 

Even Professor Felix Adler's little concert before his sermon 
to-morrow must be squelched by the police. It is classed as a 
public entertainment, under the ruling early in the week of 
Justice O'Gorman, in the Supreme Court. ^ " : 

It has been the custom of the Educational Alliance to give a 
harmless little entertainment Sunday afternoons, at which" one 
or more soloists appear. The police are instructed to prevent 
that concert. 

All roller skating rinks are to be suppressed to-morrow. All 
dances must be stopped, and that will affect about 700 dance halls 
on the East Side alone where every Sunday the residents make 
merry. 

All the moving picture shows must stop; no singing in beer 
gardens, no benefit performances, and the Settlement Workers 
will be arrested if they attempt to entertain the poor people of 
their community. 

Commissioner Bingham called all of the nineteen inspectors 
before him to give them his interpretation of Justice O'Gorman's 
decision, and the result was that he read to them an eighteen- 
hundred-word order to suppress every form of public entertain- 
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every kind and class, and they must all be stopped. We are not 
to inquire into the merit of the law. We are to execute the 
law as it reads. 

"Now, that order and that decision mean simply the stopping 
of any public entertainment or performance of any character in 
a place of public amusement on Sunday; that is the keynote. 
And it won't be often that you will have to exercise any dis- 
cretion at all. 'All performances of any character in a place of 
public amusement' is the way that decision reads. Now, that 
covers Carnegie Hall as well as the one and five-cent vaudeville 
and moving picture shows. 

"It covers roller skating and it covers benefits like that one 
they want to get off at the Hippodrome. They will spring on 
you that certain shows are for charity; well, it is up to them to 
prove it is charity, not us. 'All performances of a"ny character 
in a place of public amusement,' the decision says. 

"The Y. M. C. A. entertainments on Sunday nights are per- 
formances in a place of public amusement, and while they are 
run for the purpose of getting boys and young men off the 
street, under the decision it is no go ; it puts out the Educational 
Alliance with their little arrangement that goes on Sunday 
nights, because it is a place of public amusement Then, in the 
course of the Judge's decision, he says: 'It prohibits public 
sports, exercises or shows'; that cuts out the Celtic Park, for 
instance, although it is a nice, clean show. 

"We have no discretion whatever as the law is laid down. It 
cuts out all games of football or any other kind of ball. Naturally 
it cuts out that bicycle race at Madison Square Garden until 12.01 
Monday morning, and the authorities of the Garden have been 
warned of this fact. 
, "They promise this year to have the inside of the Garden well 
policed, and say they have taken the necessary precaution to pre- 
vent the scenes of last year. If they have not done so, the strong 
hand will be put on that bicycle^race." 

"Does it cut out dancing academies?" one of the inspectors 
asked. ^ 

" 'All performances and entertainments in places of public 
amusement,' is the decision and that takes in dancing academies. 

"Just to repeat once more: This thing is far-reaching; it is 
sweeping ; it is perfectly plain and everyone must be given a fair 
deal and treated alike.. 

"Some of the theater men wanted to make a test case, wanted 
to have an arrest, and I sent them to the Corporation Counsel. 
He writes back that he does not approve of it, because it is to 
a certain extent a violation of the decision, and it would be con- 
niving With the law, and, therefore, the keynote is, absolutely no 
arrests unless forced to it; put your men by the theater; let it 
be understood that all the theater men have had notice and let 
it be understood that there will be no show. The presence of a 
couple of men in uniform there will probably indicate it. and the 
people will ask questions. The reply' will be, There will be no 
show,' and if they go in, let them go, for you have no authority 
to stop them. 

"But you will arrest the first bunch of actors that appear after 
the curtain rises, and if they keep it up you will arrest the next 
hunch, and you will arrest the ticket seller and anybody else you 
can get hold of in the office, including the manager and pro- 
prietor. Do not be silly or domineering, but say simply, These 
are our orders.'" # * * 

DOWN WITH "BLUE LAW TYRANNY" CRY LABOR 
MEN, 250,000 STRONG. 

Reoresentatives of 250,000 union working-men. at a meeting 
Sunday at the University Settlement Building, Rivington and 
Eldridge streets, declared that the people themselves should be 
allowed to be the censors of their Sunday conduct, within rea- 
sonable limits. 

"Open the theaters," exclaimed President Henry De Veaux. 
of the Actors' Protective Union, and the applause was long and 
hearrv. Resolutions were adopted, saying: 

"Whereas. Justice O'Gorman has rendered a decision creating 
a puritanical Sabbath . . . and, 

"Whereas. The said decision sets at naught the fundamental 
prircioles of our government, to wit: Equality before the law 
pnd the pursuit of happiness and creates a class distinction by 
permitting a certain few to follow their pursuit of happiness, 
while denying the same right to a large majority, and . . . 

"Whereas, The enforcement of these laws will CTeate untold 
hardship uoon the thousands of citizens in our community, who. 
by the closing of theaters and places of amusement, will be barred 
out of employment, . I . such as actors, musicians, bar- 
tendecs, waiters and indirectly a large number of trades too 
numerous to mention; and. 

"Whereas, These puritanical laws simplv cloak hypocrisy; . . . 

"Resolved, by the Central Federated Union of Greater New 

York, to use all of our influence and endeavor to the end of 

.obtaining the abolition of the entire tyrannical blue laws and 



call upon all liberty-loving citizens of this community who favor 
fair play and justice to act with us." 

In advocating the resolutions President De Veaux said : 

"I have every respect for clergymen, but I do not believe in 
their right to be intolerant any more than any other class of 
people. The clergymen themselves work only on Sundays and 
they have no objections to the people working in their own 
churches on Sundays, such as the firemen, the janitors and the 
engineers. I never knew of these people who are so anxious to 
close the theaters on Sundays helping to bury a musician or an 
actor who died in poverty. I understand that even some of the 
churches have been giving vaudeville performances on Sunday." 

Mr'. De Veaux quoted the Rev. Dr- Curry's interview in the 
World, saying: 

"Father Curry says that this kind of drastic legislation like 
the Sunday closing law does more than anything else to drive 
people into saloons, and he is right" 

Eugene Canavan^ representing the 1,500 musicians who were 
left idle Sunday, said: 

"I represent a union that suffers more than any other because 
of the closing of the .theaters. The law should be repealed at 
once. The Aldermen should fee appealed to as well as Mayor 
McClellan and Governor Hughes." 

The resolutions were adopted without a single protest. 

* * * 

MORE THAN SIXTY THOUSAND PERSONS DEBARRED 
FROM THEIR WONTED RECREATION. 

The East Side Sunday was one continuous wail because of 
the closing of the Sunday theaters. For years it has been the 
custom of the head of the family to take his wife and children 
ta one of the Yiddish playhouses. This enjoyment was denied 
Sunday. ,'••'■ 

There are three big Yiddish theaters on the East Side, the 
Kalisch, formerly the Windsor; the People's, and the Grand 
Street. Besides these there are forty smaller playhouses. More 
.than 60,000 people had attended the Sunday afternoon and even- 
ing performances at these playhouses, and each of them was 
closed as tight as a drum Sunday. Now and then a policeman 
would appear, but he found the law was being obeyed to the 
letter. 

"If those who brought about this severity of the law," said 
former Commissioner Jacob' Katz, "would take a walk through 
the East Side to-day and see for themselves the injury the' clos- 
ing of these harmless places of amusement has done, they would 
open their eyes. On almost every street comer I saw a crowd 
of young fellows at a loss what to do with themselves. They 
would have enjoyed their afternoon at some playhouse. _ Thou- 
sands of parents and the children at home were also ' miserable 
because of the loss of their Sunday enjoyment The decent folk 
of New York are being punished. We should ' see that , these 
decent places are opened so that Sunday, which is the people's 
dav, can be enjoyed by the people as they deem best." 

Thousands of East Side Germans ■ also missed the Atlantic 
Garden, on the Bowery. This respectable German institution 
was compelled to close down its sacred concert, and its patrons 
' went away indignant. 

All in all it was an unhappy Sunday for the great East Side 
-population. The streets were crowded with people, who talked 
about nothing except the closing of the places of amusement. 

The police closed up all the dance halls. 

* * * : 

Regulations for the storing, manufacture and exhibiting of 
films are getting more stringent every day on the Continent. 
Germany has followed the lead of Norway, Sweden and Den- 
mark, whereby every film subject has to be passed by a police 
censor before it is exhibited in public. This is the direct out- 
come of the Continental style of subject. Some of the ideas 
need censorship, for some of theni are not quite the sort of 
thing we should //take our wives and sisters to see, to say noth- 
ing of the baneful influence on the minds of young children. 
Now German officialdom has gone a step further. Notice has 
been served on all who deal in films that they must, in future, 
only occupy the TOP floors of buildings,, and that those who 
stock films can only do so in buildings that are fireproof, and 
specially adapted for the purpose. This is certaintly O, T.— 
warm! British red tape is bad enough, but the German tape— 
we don't know what color they use there — is apparently worse in 
some respects. We often grumble at municipal regulations in 
this country, but our position is Elysia when compared with 
' the trade abroad. Let us all set our houses in order. Let every 
' maker and dealer take every precaution against the fire fiend. 
Let every operator be proved competent to have charge of a ma- 
chine and films, and incidentally the lives of hundreds of people 

who are watching his pictures. This- is the only way to prevent 
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Correspondence. 



An Operators' Association Wanted. 

Austin, Minn., December 2, 1907. 
Editor Moving Picture World: 

Dear Sir — 1 note your articles in the last two. issues of the 
Moving Picture World about the Operators' Association. I 
herewith offer you all the encouragement that is possible, and 
hclieve it is a just cause for all operators that have to work for 
their living. This association should make it a point to pro- 
tect the managers as well as operators, should furnish all its 
operators with . slides^that show that the machine is operated by 
an experienced person. Operators should demand good wages 
and be responsible for all damage done to either machine or 
films, as my experience has taught me that a careful operator 
need not have any fires or other damage, if he would only inspect 
his films and machine, and if not in perfect order refuse to run 
it. for he cannot do justice to himself or machine in that case. 
If we would all do this we would have a great deal better sys- 
tem. I blame the operator for all fires, etc., for he is drawing 
his salary not only for turning the crank, but for the welfare 
of the machinery intrusted to mm, as well as film. Wishing the 
association the best of success (I am willing to join a real one 
any minute), I remain, ■ Respectfully yours, 

W. J. MAHNKfc, 

Manager Gem Family Theater. 



Philadelphia, Pa., December 4, 1007. 
Editor Moving Picture World : ! • ' 

Dear Sir — As per your able' editorial in November 30 issue of 
the World, I recognize the importance of a permanent organiza- 
tion of cinematograph operators, not only for the purpose of 
regulating on a fair basis (depending, of course, on location and 
hours), salaries, but also. to restrict the employment of incom- 
petent operators, who are not only a menace to the public safety, 
in case of accident, but a detriment to' the film renters them- 
selves, as we know from our own experience, having numerous 
films returned to us scratched and torn, and we have invariably 
found it was caused by a man (or boy) who was gotten "a little 
cheaper" than one of the men whom we had recommended as 
operator. 

These things hurt us all, and I think it would be of general 
advantage to the trade at large as well as to the operators to 
organize a union, having as one of the prerequisites that no one 
with less than a year's, actual experience and sufficient electrical 
knowledge to meet the unforeseen but possible accidents to ma- 
chine or wires, shall be eligible for membership, and that a list 
of such practical operators in each city be placed on file in your 
office and a copy furnished the fire commissioners, and a traveling 
card furnished each operator from his local for road recognition. 

If lyou will furnish me with a list of such competent men as 
come within your knowledge, I will communicate with them, 
either personally or through the agency of 'your journal, and draft 
a preliminary set of by-laws to be acted upon by majority vote 
of the operators throughout the country, or by meeting of dele- 
gates, as may hereafter be agreed .upon. 

If you will give this letter such publicity as you deem advisable, 
either verbatim or in paragraph, I deem it will be "for the good 
of the service." I remain, Very sincerly yours, 

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Biograph releases this week "Dr. Skinum," 
one of the absurdities of film work. Na- 
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one better, and while criticising her works 
essays to, and at times succeeds in improv- 
ing her products. The verity of this asser- 
tion we show in this Biograph farce com- 
edy. Dr. Skinum, the learned professor of 
physiology, dermatology, biology and all 
the other "ologies," boldly claims to cor- 
rect any error of nature, be it ever so anom- 
alous. The promulgation of this fact draws 
to his office a most startling variety of 
monstrosities, all anxious to submit to his 
esoteric powers, whereby they hope to be- 
come "Utopian as to face and figure. In his 
suite are a number of cabinets, in which 
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wonders, transforming unsightly Calibans 
into beautiful Houris. The first to enter 
his chambre mysterieux is a tiny mite of 
femininity. The young lady Js less than 
three feet tall, but under the professor's 
wonderful treatment she grows rapidly, and 
while she has now attained a condition of 
extreme pulchritude, she is placed in a 
most embarrassing position from the fact 
that as she grows tall and stately her gowns 
have remained le memc, reaching only to 
the knees — Oh, mercy! ■ As an absolute 
antithesis of his first patient there appears 
a young girl who, though fair of face, 
must have been a lineal descendant from 
Teutobochus, the ancient giant king. She 
is at least eight feet tall and surely a "line 
of sweetness long drawn out" Placing her 
under a pile-driver, the. hammer of which 
balances 3,000 pounds, the professor hypno- 
tizes her and starts the machine. Blow 





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DECEMBER 2, 1907 
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upon blow is rained on her shapely head 
until at last she emerges, a Naiad of sym- 
metrical loveliness. Then comes a lady 
sporting a pair of pedal extremities that 
would surely cause Chicago to look to her 
laurels. These are quickly reduced from 
their amplitudinous dimensions to the pos- 
sibility of a "Louis Quinze." The proboscis 
next requires the professor's attention, a 
handsomely dressed society lady appearir g 
with a • marcel wave on her nose. B.it 
watch the professor! While he is engaged 
with this patient the Gargantuan form of 
a woman comes waddling in. She looks 
like a balloon and moves along with the 
grace of the car of Juggernaut. She echo> s 
Hamlefs plea, "O, that this too, too solid 
flesh would melt, thaw and resolve itself 
into a dew!" But Doc Skinum's the boy 
who knqws what to do, and placing her 
on a stretcher, with a block and fall he 
lifts her onto the reducing table. He then 
turns on the current and through the pelhi- 
cide vapor that arises we see the rapidly 
evanescent form of Elephantine Lizzie. The 
doctor having been called away by the lady 
with the distorted olfactory organ, whose 
footman had gotten into one of the cab- 
inets and instantly changed to a police- 
man, forgets to turn off the fluid, and 
around goes the pointer on the indicator 
like the hand of a clepsydra, until, on his 
return, he finds poor Lizzie reduced to an 
infinitesimal modicum of her former self. 
In fact, she is about the size of a new-born 
infant Here would be trouble for anyone 
but Skinum. So hurriedly placing her in 
the cabinet of beauty, she is transformed 
into a most charming duenna. These and 
many others are the amazing changes and 
cures performed by the old professor in 
the course of the film, which, as a whole, 
"will prove a most effective cure for "blues" 
in the spectator whose good fortune it will 
be to view it, for it is unquestionably an 
assured laughing hit. 

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In "College Chums" the Edison Com- 
pany have produced an excellent film. It 
starts off with the interior of the Girl's 
home — Jack proposes — The Girl accepts— 
The engagement ring — The kiss — In the 
park — Jack caught flirting with another 
girl. The college room — The telephone 
call — Jack trying to explain that the other 
girl was his sister — The Girl doubts — Jack 
assures her — Girl decides to call and see 
his sister. Jack in deep water — His churn 
Tom arrives — The explanation — A plan is 
made^-Tom to be the sister — He dresses as 
a girl. The Uncle, Aunt and the Girl 
arrive — Tom is introduced as the sister- 
Tom as a girl has shocking manners. All 
off to see the college — The Uncle returns 
—(Miss) Tom meets him — He flirts with 
the Uncle — The Uncle falls in love with 
Tom— The kiss — Dancing and high kick- 
ing, when Aunty arrives on the scene— -A 
hasty retreat. (Miss) Tom has a quiet 
smoke — Discovered by Aunty — The Uncle 
returns for more kicks and kisses, but the 
course of true love fails to run smooth. 
(Miss) Tom meets Jack's fiancee — Girls 
will be girls — They love, kiss and tell sweet 
secrets together — Poor Jack wild with rage 
— He succeeds in getting his fiancee out of 
the room— Ah! Retribution at last!— He 
beats and pounds little (Miss) Tom in « 
shameful manner— Horror of horrors, his 
fiancee arrives with Aunty and discovers 
Jack beating his sister — Torn gets all the 
hugs and kisses — Jack is a brute — A beast. 
—Jack leaves the room— The Uncle arrives 
—Jack shall beg his sister's pardon— The 
Uncle rushes after Jack, much to Toms 
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wreck— He falls at Tom's feet asking for ing whirled off towards her child. But her sists in stalking out on the stage, where the 
pardon-j-Jack loses his sweetheart — Tom husband follows her savagely, and alighting audience hisses him off several times, and 
loses his college chum. Moral :— Never be at the house, soon bursts into the room, the stage manager is frantic The super 
engaged to one girl while making love to* Here he finds the woman, her baby and is finally pulled off and thrown bodily into 
another. another man; of course," he immediately the wings. He makes his way into the fiys 

— connects the trio, but the man soon proves above, and clambering across the confusing 

Another new Edison film is "Laughing that he is only the physician who had been scaffolding, is soon directly above the stage. 
Gas." Poor Mandy Brown! Oh, such a attending the child, and quietly withdraws. He leans forward, loses his balance, and 
tooth' ache! The dentist's office — "For de Left alone, the suspecting husband looks the next second tumbles down on top of 
land sake, man, you done got to stop dis from the child to its mother, and soon the the actors. This time he is thrown forward 
■ tooth ache." — Into the dentist's chair — The latter collapses, telling her entire story, across the footlights, but regaining his feet 
fight — Mandy takes laughing gas — Out how she had been shielding from him the he goes off on another expedition and soon 
comes the tooth — Mandy delighted — She is fact that she had a child living. The man discovers the stairs leading to the cellar of 
more than delighted — She begins to grin — immediately changes his demeanor, takes the building. Here he begins to explore, 
Then to laugh — She can't stop laughing — the woman to him, forgives her tenderly, when suddenly he steps upon an elevating 
The gas is doing its work well— She leaves, and kissing the child fondly, looks at the trap which begins to ascend, and to the sur-" 
still laughing. The street car — The car gives woman, as if asking, "Why didn't you say prise of all, he emerges headfirst through 
a lurch— Mandy lands in a gentleman's lap so before?" " the floor of the stage, arriving directly un- 

— She starts to laugh — She can't stop — The «^ Super's Debut." A thriftless yokel is der a table, upsetting it and the actors who 
car in an uproar. The German street band attracted by a sign advertising that supers happen just then to be gathered around it. 
—Mandy stops to listen to sweet music — are nee( jed for a certain theater, and on He is again given a good trouncing, and 
She laughs— They laugh— She breaks up a app iyj n g j s promptly accepted. A rather this time he is thrown out of the theater, 
symphony in G. The street corner— Our. f h "J™ manager takes him in hand The last picture is a close view of his face, 
friend the Dago image seller— He tries to and be ^ ns his theat rical training by throw- which he distorts in comic shapes. . 
induce Mandy to buy— More laughter— • hhn - mto a d re ssmg-room, where, after "Up-to-Date Burglars.' While a burglar 
Mirth to disaster— The broken images — An co ^,; c efforts he is transformed into a bold allows himself to be locked in a wardrobe, 
angry Dago— The police arrest Laughing knignt He' makes himself obnoxious at the other, posing as an expressman, de- 
Mandy and angry Dago. The Police Sta- re h e arsal but is tolerated, and finally is livers the piece of furniture at a fashion- 
tion— Laughter takes the place of Justice— ready f ' r t he regular performance. It able residence, where the butler accepts it 
Mandy discharged. An Irish argument — seen { s however that for this occasion he It is carried into a room and left there, the 
Laughing Mandy the peace maker. Home njjs parta }jen freely of hot stuff, and now butler and thief s accomplice going out. 
at last— The dinner scene— Mandy bringa h;l £ t h e performance is going on, he per- While they are gone, the man in the ward- 
in the soup— : She can't stop laughing— _ 
Everybody enjoys a hearty laugh except 
the soup which lands on the master's head 
— The breaking up of china. Mandy starts 
for church — She meets a colored masher — 
He likes her sense of humor— They both 
laugh— Also the moon. A colored church 
—"Brethren and sisters, let us pray"— But 
Mandy starts to laugh — Mandy breaks, up 
the congregation. Merry, mirthful Mandy 
laughs on to the end, believing "That he 
who laughs last, laughs best." 

The latest productions of Pathe are: 
"A Mother's Secret" The mother in this 
case is an unfortunate but pretty young 
woman who sews to support herself and 
baby, living in a squalid garret, where a 
kindly neighbor helps her care for the in- 
fant Leaving her home, she lugs a huge 
bundle of work over to the factory, where, 
it is seen, the superintendent finds fault 
with her, refusing to allow her any more 
work She begs and pleads earnestly, and 
she finally turns from the factory tear- 
fully. Going out upon the street a- tall gen- 
tleman is attracted by her appearance, and 
soon makes bold to speak to her. She is 
surprised and puzzled when he gives her 
his card, inviting her to his home, but in 
the hope that it may mean a little luck to 
her, she goes to his home in the evening. 
Here she is pow seen as she rings the bell 
at the door of a beautiful mansion, and she 
is promptly admitted by a man servant; he 
ushers her into the private room of his 
master, and they are left alone. He is soon 
making violent love to her, and the manner 
in which his manifestations are received 
is illustrated in the next picture, where, it 
is apparent, she is the mistress of his house. 
But another side of the story is seen when 
she, finely and fashionably attired, _ goes 
back to the house where her baby is, to 
give it, when afforded an opportunity, the 
love and tender care of motherhood. How- 
ever, the child falls ill, and the woman who 
takes care of the tot sends a note to this 
effect to the mother; the messenger arrives 
and gives her the missive in the presence 
of the man who loves her. He immediately 
suspects her, and makes an endeavor to pro- 
' cure the note, but is unsuccessful. She 
goes straight to the room, and donning 
street costume, hails a cab and is soon be- 



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robe comes out, gathers up all the valuables 
in the room, and then closes himself in 
again. Now his pal carries out the rest of 
the program. He comes back to the house, 
rings for the butler, and almost tearfully 
informs him that the wardrobe has been 
delivered there by mistake. Of course, it 
sounds plausible (backed up by a note), and 
they both go into the room and pack the 
wardrobe into the vehicle again. The pal, 
however, is overtaken by an officer, who 
insists on searching the spacious wardrobe ; 
it is stood upright, and while the officer 
opens the front door the thief with the swag 
steps out through the back door; then, 
while the officer peers in, they lock him in 
it, cart it down to the river front and heave 
it overboard. In the water it is now seen, 
buffeted by billows", until a curious seaman 
finds it, and opening it, liberates the half- 
drowned policeman. 

"Elephants in India." The first picture 
shows seven gigantic pachyderms being 
brushed down, cleaned, marcelled, mani- 
cured, etc., by their keepers. The toilet 
completed, the huge quadrupeds are next 
seen at exercise, where, at the word of their 
director, they execute a number of wonder- 
fully intelligent stunts, among which- are. 
lying down limp, rolling over, balancing and 
posing. In the next view two of the largest 
of the herd are pitted against each other in 
a ramming contest. A mahout mounted on 
each beast, they place their heads together 
and each endeavors to.push the other back. 
The last view given is that of the elephants 
mounting a gangway to the top of a chute, 
from which each goes sliding down the 
way, finally splashing into a pond. 

"Sailor's Practical Joke." Three seamen 
are drinking in a tavern. Finally, one of 
them, on drinking four rounds of two 
glasses each, drops as if dead. His cronies, 
alarmed, flee, and the landlady, unwilling 
to have a corpse to her credit, carries him 
to a neighbor's doorway and leaves, him 
there in an upright position. A man falls 
over him, and apparently of the same dis- 
position as the landlady, carries the limp 
form to another doorway. In this way the 
sailor, shamming cleverly, is carried to two 
more doorways, after which he is put into 
a vacant carriage) but cabby is not on good 
terms with corpses, so he takes it to a 
bather's dressing-tent on a beach. From 
here it makes another trip, and a few more 
find the sailor waking up in the water. He 
now makes his way back to the tavern, 
where he sees his cronies discussing his 
fate; he crawls under the table between 
them, and suddenly bobs- up, after which 
all three join in a good long laugh at the 
joke. 

"A Champion After All." A pretty stout 
man goes out for a duck in the pond, tak- 
ing his dog with him. But while he is in 
the water his dog takes the bundle of 
clothes in his teeth and jumps in after his 
master. The man is angry enough to see 
his clothes spoiled, but resolves to act 
quickly; he lays the clothes out on the 
grass and lying down near them, then soon 
doses off. A tramp now happens along and 
appropriates the garments, with many 
thanks to the sleeping owner. The man, 
on awakening, discovers his loss, and in 
his striped bathing suit goes out" on a hunt 
Suddenly, asleep on a bank, he sees a fa- 
tigued bicycle racer, his wheel beside him. 
The athlete's suit resembles that of the 
bathers- in pattern, and soon the latter is 
speeding away, bearing also "number thirty- 
five," as the racer was designated by a 
placard. The rider follows the road, and 
is soon taken in hand by a number of train- 
ers who have been assigned to "number 



thirty-five ' ; they refresh him and give him 
a drink, then- send him along on the course 
with cheers, for it seems that he is in the 
lead. He keeps up a good pace and soon 
the scene changes, showing the crowds wait- 
ing at the finish line. The riders come into 
view, the impostor "35". in the lead; on they 
come, but he holds his advantage, and 
crosses the line, a winner. He is awarded 
the cup trophy, and soon adjourns to a • 
neighboring cafe, on the shoulders of en- 
thusiasts. But while he is there engaged, 
the real "35" romps home, exposes the im- 
postor, and the enraged crowd treats the 
latter accordingly. 

"Music, Forward!" The above order is 
given by a lady in Colonial costume, and 
in march a group of five musicians, work- 
ing industriously at their instruments. The 
directress stands them in a row, and tak- 
ing the head -off each, throws it onto a 
huge music staff and each becomes a note 
of the scale. The whole bodies appear 
again, after which the manipulator seems 
to wrap them up in a large sheet of music, 
which is then shown to contain nothing. 
The paper is rolled up again, and a cane is 
held, perpendicularly, in a horizontal posi- 
tion to the sheet, when the musicians, each 
about one-twentieth of the natural stature, 
issue from the paper and parade up and 
down the narrow stick. This done, a pretty 
effect in human no.tes, which are the play- 
ers' heads, is shown, after which the* little 
band and their directress march out again. 

. — ■ ■ s 

Whatever Tommy Burns may or may no\ 
have done, he has just now made himselfN 
the most talked of fighter in the world./ 
The Englishmen haveirt taken to the little 
American one bit When Tom bumped 
their champion into the rosin dust he 
brought down a bit of their English pride 
with that finishing punch. Now the Eng- 
lish papers are roasting Burns for prolong- 
ing the agony with an idea of showing in 
moving pictures just how sadly lacking is 
the British fighter in ability and to help 
bulge his pocketbook. They accuse Tommy 
of going into the ring and fighting for the 
moving pictures alone after he had looked 
the "squash" - over. Tommy wasn't to be 
caught off. his guard. He didn't bet a cent 
on himself, they claim, until he came back 
to his corner after the first round. Then 
Burns told his manager, Neall, that the 
Gunner was a dub and to bet the limit. 
Every time that the Gunner took on a 
saucy glare at Burns the latter would poke 
him on the nose and then work over to 
where Neall was picketed and tell him to 
bet The more the Gunner tried the more 
Burns yelled, for his handy man to get 
down the coin. He was so busy signaling 
him in the fifth that the Gunner managed to 
catch him off guard and brought his right 
with a whack over on the American's classic 
nose. It bled, and Tommy immediately 
turned the- bruised proboscis into focus of 
the moving picture machine. "Just think 
of the commercial nerve of that fellov," 
said the Englishman. "He wants all Amer- 
ica and whoever else sees the pictures to 
think that it was a savage session that he 
had." Another time, in the third round 
they claim that Burns pelted the Gunner 
in the "pit" so hard that 'the tattooed man 
took to the tulips with no chance to arise, 
once his courage deserted him. They say 
that Burns turned pale at the thought of 
spoiling the money value of the flitting 
views of his handiwork and that he actu- 
ally breathed a good, whole-souled sigh of 
relief when the poor, old Gunner spread 
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English fighting pose again. Then Burns 
waited until the tenth round was all but 
over before he took it upon himself to chip 
the goggle-eyed gunnerman on the chin. 
"Just to win these ten bets and to give the 
films as much of a spin as possible," prints 
one paper. Tommy, how could you? The 
film was taken by the Urban-Eclipse and 
Kleine Optical Company are their agents. 



for disturbing the performance with his 
continuous "Oh, me, oh my," which makes 
everybody yawn and gap. You can see on 
his mouth when he says "Oh me, oh my." 
This is one of the funniest pictures ever 
created. 



Lubin this week sends out : 
"Neighbors Who Borrow." Mr. Jones is 
a good-hearted fellow. When one of his 
peighbors asks for the loan of the side- 
board and all the cut glass, Mr. Jones lends 
it to him. By and by all the neighbors ask 
to borrow something, until at last the house 
is stripped bare from cellar to roof. Even 
the baby has been borrowed. When Mrs. 
Jones comes home and sees the neighbors 
carrying away her household goods she 
makes them bring everything back, but oh 1 
how this was done. Now starts a chase 
after the baby which is the funniest thing 
ever seen. At last the- baby is found and 
poor Mr. Jones gets his. 

"The Parson of Hungry Gulch." The 
parents of the young minister in their New 
England home are packing his .trunk in 
readiness for his departure for the far West. 
Arriving at his destination, he is hailed 
with great merriment and derision by the 
denizens of the place. One half-drunken 
cow puncher seems to find delight in an- 
noying him. While the parson is a man 
of peace he has not forgotten 4iis athletic 
training in the seminary and in a moment 
of indignation gives his annoyer a well- 
directed punch in the jaw. He then pro- 
ceeds to the interior of the hotel, where he 
applies for shelter, being followed by the 
man he struck. A young cavalryman en- 
gages in a game of faro with "Pike," the 
proprietor and. an all-around, gambler, and 
after repeated losses realizes that he has 
been cheated. In a few moments there is 
a flash of guns and the cavalryman sinks 
to the floor severely wounded. A lynching 
party is quickly organized, a rope is passed 
around the gambler's neck and he is 
dragged along by a cowboy on horseback. 
Arriving at a tall tree, the rope is thrown 
over a limb, and in another moment all 
would be over but -for the arrival on the 
scene of the "Parson" and Pike's little 
daughter, who has led him there. It re- 
quires great persuasion to accomplish his 
release, and through the assistance of a 
friendly Indian he is given a horse and 
rides away with his child, while the "Par- 
son" harangues the crowd, finally swaying 
them until they accompany him arm in arm 
from the scene. The next scene shows 
"Pike," who has been very near to death, 
in his rude cabin surrounded by wife and 
child. The "Parson" enters and finally suc- 
ceeds in saving one who was very far from 
the fold. "Pike" bows his head in prayer 
and promises to lead a better life. The 
final 'scene shows how the right man in 
the right place may work wonders. The 
"Parson" has actually captured the entire 
outfit "Pike" and his family enter. He 
is now a different man and promises to be a 
good dtizen. The "Parson" is the real 
stuff, with- them and all show their great 
affection for him in characteristic Western 

style.- - - - 

"Oh Mel, Oh My!" After a strenuous 
night, and very little sleep, Mr. Feinheimer 
js going to work, but "Oh me, oh my," he 
is so tired-. Every minute he has to sttetch, 
Rap and yawn, which gets him into all 
kinds of trouble. First on the street, then 
in a restaurant, then, at his office, and at 
last at. the theater, from where he is ejected 



In "The Need Of Gold," by the Vita- 
graph Company, the plot of the picture is 
laid in a mining camp of the Far West 

On a cot in a scantily furnished cabin a 
miner lies sick. His daughter, a very 
pretty girl, is attending himv^A glance at 
the cupboard shows the supplies exhausted ; 
the money bag is also empty. With this* 
condition existing, and no apparent change 
for the better in view, the girl becomes 
despondent, buries her face and weeps bit- 
terly. Suddenly an idea seizes her. The 
Overland Coach will soon arrive, and by 
holding it up their suffering can. for the 
time being, be allayed. She tenderly cov- 
ers the sick man, dons a rough miner's 
costume, tucks her long hair under the 
slouch hat, and fully armed she looks the 
part of a truly desperate character. Cau- 
tiously the resolute girl makes her way to 
the trail, hides in the bushes, awaiting the 
arrival of . the stage coach. The distant 
rumbling of wheels warns her of its ap- 
proach. As the horses turn a corner the 
robber steps boldly out, and at the threat 
of death, forces the passengers to- alight 
and give over all money and valuables. 
This accomplished, the robber appropriates 
the horse ot a cowboy who has accom- 
panied the stage, and hurriedly mounting, 
rides away. But a few moments have 
elapsed when a band of cowboys, attracted 
by the shooting, ride up, take in the situa- 
tion, are informed the direction taken by 
the robber, and dash off in pursuit. 

The scene changes to a rough telegraph 
office. The operator with a coterie of 
hangers-on, cowboys, miners, etc, are swap- 
ping yarns when their conversation is inter- 
rupted by a clicking of the telegraph, 
"Overland Stage held up. Watch dead 
Gulch Trail," comes a message over the 
wire. All hands get their guns in readiness 
and leave the office to intercept the lone 
plunderer. Taking position near location 
designated in the message, the/ lie in wait. 
Shortly a horse and rider approach, and, 
proving to be the desperado, is captured 
by the vigilants. A few minutes later the 
band of cowboys appear and the culprit is 
brought before "Judge Lynch," where sen- 
tence is quickly passed and as quickly put 
into execution. The victim is led to a 
tree from which a rope is suspended, the 
law is about to take its course, when the 
robber's hat falls off, her long hair drops, 
revealing the sex of the felon. To the 
band of avengers the woman relates her 
story of want and privation of the sick 
parent at home, and the spirit of anger and 
desire to enforce their judgment whicb 
prevailed, turns to pity and determination 
to help the unfortunate woman. To the 
miner's cabin all hands repair. There, in- 
deed, is destitution and poverty vividly 
shown. The sick man raises his head, en- 
deavors to speak, but falls back on the 
pillow exhausted. The daughter -drops- 011 
her knees beside the bed. weeping over 
their sad plight. The onlookers realize 
that extreme want alone has prompted such 
a desperate undertaking. The hat is passed 
around and liberal contributions drop into 
it Leaving the sorrowing girl at the bed- 
side of her parent, the money is placed on 
a table and the visitors depart. 



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The Elopement 693 ft. 

Wife Wanted...". 848 ft. 

Under the Old Apple Tree.. 378 ft. 

Yale Laundry 80S ft. 

Love Microbe. -67V ft. 

terrible Ted 7V2 ft. 

Aa Acadian Elopement 71S ft. 

Lena and the Beaux ...413 ft 

Neighbors 13S ft. 

Th* Tired Tailor's Dream.. 625 ft. 
Tke Hypnotist's Revenge.. 1030 ft 

Deaf Mutes' Ball 790 ft. 

gvriting Night of Their 

Honeymoon «?2 ft. 

The Model's Ma.... 233 ft. 

Dolls in Dreamland 752 ft. 

CARLO ROSSI. 

A Soldier Most Obey Orders.. 

When Cherries Are Ripe 

EDISON. 

The Trainer's Daughter 800 ft. 

Three American Beauties... 85 ft. 

Parsifal * 975 «■ 

Paul Revere's Ride 915 ft. 

Jack the Kisser 755 ft. 

A. Race for Millions 975 ft. 

The Rgr«l»v •••"S?fc 

Stage Struck...... 785 ft. 

. Nine lire* of a Cat 955 ft. 

Jamestown Exposition 500 ft. 

tost in the Alps .830 ft. 

Panama Canal Scenes and 

Incidents ......1355 ft. 

Daniel Boone; or, Pioneer 

Days in America 1000 ft. 

Teddy Bears 935 ft. 

ESSANAY. 

The Eleventh Hour.... 850 ft. 

Unveiling McKinley Memor- 

Hey, ThereY 'Look Outi.'.". 400 ft. 

99 in the Shade -■ 

The Vagabond 770 ft. 

A Free Lunch — — 

The Street Fakir ' 

The Dancing Nig... ;»' £• 

Life of a Bootblack '26 ft. 

Mr. Inquisitive.., .-300 ft. 

Slow But Sure ••••&? ft 

Aa Awful Skate 683 ft 

GATJMONT. 

Colonial Soldier 650 ft. 

Stolen Shoes........ 417 ft. 

Grandfather and Kittens 227 ft. 

Irresistible Piano 420 ft. 

Episode of Paris Commune.. 294 it. 

Who Has Stolen My Bicycle?.257 ft. 

A Good Husband. 34; Jt 

Raising the Wind... 367 ft. 

A Wig Made to Order ..354 ft. 

The White Shoes; or, Look- 
ing for His Banknote 317 ft. 

A Rolling Bed 340 ft. 

T-e Lost Bass Dram: or. 

Where Is That Louise?,.. 534 ft 

Granu ather and the Kitten.. 244 ft. 

The Bomb --'VA tt 

Tnming the Tables 347 ft. 

The Stolen Shoes 434 ft. 

The Adventures of a Bath 
Chair 560 ft. 

The Absent- Minded Professor. 504 ft 

Onions Make People Weep.. 544 ft. 

The Irresistible Piano 437 ft. 

The Athletic Dude 500 ft. 

Floor Polisher 234 ft. 

The Thieving Umbrella 407 ft. 

Towed by an Automobile 424 ft. 

Who Has Stolen Mv Bicycle? .274 ft 

The Glue 467 ft. 

A Four- Year-Old Heroine. . .427 ft. 

An Episode of the Paris Com- 
mune • 310 ft. 

Volunteer's Betrothal 684 ft. 

Naval Maneuvers 567 ft. 

Jealousy Punished 257 ft. 

Smoke without Fire 257 ft. 

Asking His Way 724 ft. 

Returning Good for Evil.... 434 ft 

Late for His Wedding. ..... .384 ft. 



Madame Goes Shopping 274 ft 

Tke Good Wine '. £37 ft. 

Tke Motorcyclist 247 rt 

A Modern Mother 384 ft 

GOODFELLOW. 

Faith's Rewards. 

Mixed Pickles 

Soueeliag Chinese into 

U. S. A 805 ft 

Getting. Even. 625 ft 

That Dog Gone Dog 672 ft. 

Goldstein's Luck 

A Disastrous Flirtation 825 ft 

Thursday Is My Jonah Day. 675 ft 
It Served Them Right 860 ft 

KALEM' COMPANY (INC.). 

Ben Hur 1000 ft 

School Days. 470 ft 

Lost Mine. 455 ft 

Dramatic Rehearsal 105 ft 

Woman, Cruel Woman 315 ft 

The Rival Motorists 555 ft 

His Affinity 

Troubles of a Tramp........' 

The Gold Brick 705 ft 

It- Was Mother-in-Law 160 ft 

Nathan Hale 750 ft 

Red Man's Way 680 ft 

Chines e Slave Smuggling... 650 ft 

Amateur Detective 232 ft 

Nature Fakers* 490 ft 

Wooing of Miles Standish. .720 ft 

Keggy's Camping farty 705 ft 

Who'll Do the Washing? 595 ft 

One-Night Stand. 760 ft 

The Sea Wolf. 655 ft 

The Book Agent 720 ft 

The Parson's Picnic 670 ft 

The Tenderfoot.... 850 ft 

Off for the Day 670 ft 

The Pony Express Rider.... 880 ft 
The Gentleman Farmer 720 ft 

LUBIN. 
How Brown Saw the Baseball 

Game 350 ft 

Neighbors Who Borrow 493 ft 

The Foundling. 823 ft 

Harbor Pirates 695 ft 

The Lost Collar Button 360 ft 

The New Arrival 316 ft 

Moses Sells a Collar Button. 155 ft 
The Blacksmith's Daughter.. 845 ft 

The New Apprentice 530 ft 

Grandpa's Vacation 690 ft 

Wanted: A Husband 565 ft. 

The Actor Annoys the Board- 
ers 210 ft 

A Misunderstanding 240 ft 

Gypsy's Revenge 900 ft. 

MELIES. 

A Forester Made King.. 458 ft 

Good Glue Sticks 311 ft 

Seek and Thou Shalt Find — 

Trouble 88 ft 

Sightseeing Through Whis- 
key 353 ft 

Shakespeare Writing Julius 

Czsar 344 ft 

Satan in Prison 300 ft 

A Story of Eggs..... 192 ft 

Hamlet Prince of Denmark. 570 ft 

Drink 312 ft 

Bewildering Cabinet 370 ft 

A New Death Penalty 400 ft 

How Bridget's Lover Es- 
caped 500 ft 

The Skipping Cheese 280 ft. 

Robert Maeaire ft Bertrand.1060 ft 

MILES BROS. 

The Blackmailer 58S ft 

Petticoat Regiment 785 ft 

Babes in the Woods 373 ft 

Once Upon a Time There 

Was 867 ft. 

For a Woman's Sake 497 ft 

His First Topper 255 ft 

Invalid's Adventure.. ....... 

Cheekiest Man on Earth.... 

Babes in the Woods. 



Female Regiment. . . 
Arrival of the Lusitama. 
"Once Upon a Time There 

Was " 

For a Woman's Sake ,. 

Great Lion Hunt 700 ft 

Female Wrestlers. 508 ft 

Happy Bob as Boxer..; 262 ft 

PATHE. 

The Pearl Fisher..: 524 ft 

The Poor Old Couple .410 ft. 

Doings of a Maniac 426 ft 

Bobby's Practical Jokes .393 ft. 

An Exciting Ride 213 ft 

Modern Hercules at Worit...22V ft 
Your Wife Is Unfaithful to. 

Us 393 ft 

Ups and Downs of a Hat.... 377 ft 

The Clock-Maker's Secret 803 ft 

Wood Industry in Norway.. 328 ft 

Economical Trip. 278 ft 

Master in General 295 ft 

The Cupboard 459 ft 

The Baboon.... 393 ft 

.Enchanted Pond .....196 ft 

Airship Thieves....; 246 ft 

The Plank. 229 ft 

Little Conjurer..... 246 ft 

Ali Baba and the 40Thieves.l082 ft 

The Pirates 541 ft 

The Innkeeper's Wife 442 ft 

Inexhaustible Barrel 295 ft 

Chemist's Mistake 262 ft 

Tipplers Race 377 ft 

Mysterious Boudoir.... 246 ft 

Inlceeper and Wife 442 ft 

Cripple's Duel 377 ft 

Artistic Woodcarver 311ft 

, Satan at Play 656 ft 

A Quiet Hotel 344 ft . 

Burglary by Motor 426 ft. 

Her First Bike Ride 344 ft 

Pleasant Thoughts.... 213 ft 

Magic Lantern .....f.,.213 ft 

My Mother-in-Law 311 ft. 

Red Riding Hood 323 ft 

Andalusian Dances......... "344 ft 

THEO. PATHE. 

T. P.— PARIS. 

Brain Storm ..517 ft 

Who Owns the Pear? 234 ft 

Unlucky Substitution 517 ft 

The Blacksmith's Strike.... 1067 ft 

Too Many Children 734 ft 

Governess Wanted 517 ft 

Cream-Eating Contest Ill ft. 

Non - Commissioned Officers' ' 

Honor 800 ft 

Interesting Reading 184 ft 

Clever Detective. 700 ft 

SELIG 

Wooing and Wedding of a 
Coon 



What a Pipe Did 465 ft 

A Southern Romance 590 ft 

Mishaps of a Baby Carriage. 460 ft 

The Girl and the Judge 83S ft 

Motoring Under Difncul ties. .450 ft 

A Life for a Life 

Cab 23 755 ft 

All's Well that Ends Well... 600 ft 
Grand Canyon of Arizona... 600 ft 

Roller Skate Crase 505 ft 

The Onion Fiend .....425 ft 

The Matices Idol 430 ft 

The Bookworm. 445 ft 

Western Justice 700 ft 

The Masher... 440 ft. 

One of tne Finest ...535 ft 

The Bandit King .....1000 ft 

SOCIETY ITALIAN CINES. 

Venetian Baker.. ............76S ft 

Watchmaker's Secret ,772 ft 

In the Dreamland 387 ft 

Where Is My Head? .153 ft 

Monk's Vengeance 204 ft 

Stolen Chicken. ..272 ft. 

Modern Samson.. ..." 420 ft 



Hunting the Devil 291 ft. 

Electric Pile. .....172 ft 

Gitana 912 ft 

Kidnapping' a Bride 530 ft 

Fountains of Rome.-. 215 ft 

Slavery of Children 53b ft 

The Fireman'. 295 ft 

Modern Youth .1032 (t 

Ragpicker's Daughter 694 ft 

Little Fregoli 245 b 

File de Chiffonier.. ...... ..694 ft 

URBAN-ECUPSE. 

The Tattler..!.. 394 ft. 

Misadventures of a Street 

Singer 307 ft 

Unlucky Trousers 280 ft. 

Reed ha a Boys' Aquatic 

Sports 434 ft 

Bad Boy's Joke 487 ft 

Daughter's Lover in Difficul- 
ties ." 447 ft. 

Stolen Child's Career........ 614 ft 

French Recruit .'...667 ft 

Comrade Rations. ...... .....320 ft. 

Simple-Minded Peasant 667 ft 

King Edward on E 11 5. 

Dreadnought 534 ft 

Launch of the British Battle- 
ship Bellerophon ........427 ft 

Anonymous Letter.'. 434 ft 

Accidents Will Happen 474 ft 

Through Hong-Kong. 627 ft 

Picturesque Brittany 320 ft 

De Been Diamond IB— 

(Kimherly, S. A.) 387 ft 

Picturesque Wales ..900 ft 

Slate Quarries in North 

Wales 867 ft 

There is a Rat in its Room.. 200 ft 
Fanner Giles' Geese 247 ft 

Rubberneck Reuben 254 ft 

VITAGRAPH. 

The Need of Gold 475 ft 

Laughing Gas ....400 ft 

The Burglar and the Baby.. 375 ft 

Under False Colors .575 ft 

The Despatch Bearer .725 ft 

A Fish- Story...... 4S0 ft 

A Crary Quilt 400 ft 

The Twin Brother's Joke... 600 ft 

A Little Hero 300 ft 

The Kitchen Maid's Dream.. 400 ft 

The Soldier's Dream. 300 ft 

The Veiled Beau» 600 ft 

The Kitchen Maid s Dream. .400 ft 

The Inquisitive Boy..l 500 ft 

The Masquerade Party 530 ft 

The Piker's Dream ..600 ft 

Gypsy's Warning... ....... ..285 ft 

The Mill Girl. ...700 ft 

WILLIAMS. BROWN ft EARLE. 

The Sticky Bicycle 495 ft 

Rebellious Schoolgirls 100 ft 

Serving a Summons 190 ft 

A Soldier's Jealousy. .......400 ft 

Drink 200 ft 

Little Meg and the Wonder- 
ful Lamp 525 ft 

Too Devoted Wife 375 ft 

Sham Sword Swallower....350 ft 

A Day of His Own 330 ft 

Modern Don Juan 375 ft 

Cricket Terms HIustrcted...230 ft 

Mischievous Girls...... 250 ft 

A Seaside Girl 325 ft 

Doa't Go to Law 250 ft 

A Sailor'o Lass 300 ft 

A Modern Don Jean...... ..375 ft 

Wild Animal: 650 ft 

Just in Time.. 540 ft 

Diet Turpin 525 ft 

The Porfs Babies 525 ft 

The Cosie Duel 270 ft 

Bertie's Love-Letter — 

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Presentation of Firemen's 
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McClellan 250 ft 

Mystic Shriners at Dream- 
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Hunting in Canadian Woods. 600 ft 



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The United Film Service Protec- 
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We congratulate the film renters on the outcome of 
their deliberations at Chicago. The U. F. S. P. A. is 
now an accomplished fact, and the power the association 
can yield is immense, and in the hands of the chosen 
leaders will be wielded only for the good of all concerned, 
and that it will result in the uplifting of the exhibitions. 
We commend to our readers the weighty words of 
Thomas A. Edison and we sincerely trust they will have 
the effect of inducing all renters to eliminate from their 
stock every film that is in any sense objectionable to the 
good taste of the public who patronize the nickelodeons. 

Just a word to the exhibitors. A few have got the 
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The Operators' Union. 

We thank our friend M. E. Backenstoss for his timely 
letter which appears in our correspondence column. We 
had not forgotten the Philadelphia Union, which we have 
watched for some time, and congratulate every member 
thereof on its continued success and the results already 
accomplished. But Philadelphia is not New York, and 
the Union here is but a farce; it is a standing joke in. the 
ranks of the operators, who, either through shortsighted- 
ness, jealousy, or place seeking, have allowed it to drop. 
It -might be resuscitated with benefit to the whole pro- 
fession. Boys are being employed in the place of men. 
to the great discredit of the shows. Proprietors, for the 
sake of a few dollars, are employing them to their stand- 
ing disgrace and poorness of exhibitions. We indeed 
welcome articles such as this letter and await with eager- 
ness future communications that have a tendency to ele- 
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Edison's Piece in the Moving 
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By Frank L. Dyer, 

General Counsel, Edison Manufacturing Company. 

It- is a curious fact in connection with most great- in- 
ventions, almost without exception, that prior to their 
actual accomplishment their possibility has been pre- 
dicted by ingenious speculators of the Jules Verne and 
H. G. Wells type. Just as there are many of us who have 
no difficulty in imagining an ideal social condition, while 
the accomplishment of any radical socialistic reform in- 
volves the highest order of genius, so in the field of sci- 
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can fortell what ought to be done in the arts, although 
there are very few who actually accomplish the pre- 
dicted result. 

Long before the invention of the telephone the pos- 
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told, and not only so, but strange to say, almost the exact 
mode of accomplishment was predicted. t * 

The possibility of lighting by incandescence was known 
long before Edison's actual realization of the modern 
art; the electric telegraph was suggested many years be- 
fore the work of Morse ; the modern sub-marine finds its 
prototype in the famous "Nautilus" of our boyhood ; and 
more than two hundred years ago Cyrano de Bergerac 
in his imaginative account of a visit to the moon and sun 
foretold all the possibilities of the modern phonograph. 

No one doUbts for a moment that aerial navigation wilt 
be eventually accomplished and, when it does come, I da 
not hesitate to say that the invention: ?v; w.binb. \'nat ac- 
, complishment is realized will be/round to be substantially 
anticipated in some of the descriptions which we now are 
familiar with, but from "wJiHch with our present knowl- 
edge we have obtained n9»' solution of the problem. 

The moving picture art* is no exception in this respect. 
The phenomena concerning persistence of vision were 
well known over a hundred years ago. The possibility 
of producing the samblance of animate motion by means 
of toys of the zoetrope type was clearly understood. The 
fact that trve pictures necessary for the illusion might be 
obtained photographically was also realized. 

Many of the early inventors and dreamers were un- 
doubtedly handicapped by defects in photographic proc- 
esses, necessitating the use of fugitive wet plates requir- 
r -ing long exposure. 



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But before Mr. Edison's advent in the field, about the 
year 1888, or possibly earlier, modern instantaneous pho- . 
tography had been very completely developed. In fact, 
the work of Muybridge in the photography of men and 
animals in motion has not been excelled in beauty and 
perfection of detail by any modern photographer. Pro- 
fessor Marey also had obtained exquisite photographs of 
flying birds, as well as other examples of animate move- 
ment, by means of which an analysis. of such movement 
was obtained and in one or two instances these move- 
ments were reproduced synthetically in apparatus of the 
zoetrope type. 

All of this was, however, ' from the modern point of 
view, crude and ineffective, necessitating more a vivid 
imagination than the production of an illusion which ap- 
pealed directly to the sense of sight. Obviously, with the 
zoetrope at hand, together, with its numerous modifica- 
tions, including apparatus for actually projecting a pic- 
ture on a screen, the perfection of an exhibition device 
required more the work of the skilled mechanic than of 
the inventor. 

Even with the problem of instantaneous photography 
■solved, and with the ultimate possibility of obtaining mov- 
ing pictures by photography clearly understood, the solu- 
tion of the difficulties involved the construction of a cam- 
era by means of which the necessarily large number of 
instantaneous pictures per second could be obtained. 

An examination of the literature of the art shows that 
this was the problem to which the various inventors., 
primarily addressed themselves. Some of the early 
workers suggested the employment of glass plates, and 
Marey actually succeeded in obtaining a series of twelve 
photographs of a flying bird in this way; but the use of 
plates would be obviously impossible in any practical ap- 
paratus when we consider that nine hundred plates or 
more would be required per minute. 

Other inventors suggested flexible bands or belts, car- 
rying plates or sections of sensitized paper, and in some 
instances coated directly with a sensitized surface. But 
in every instance the difficulties encountered were in se- 
curing an enormous number of sharp impressions in prac- 
tically an instant of time. Numerous suggestions, some 
of them very ingenious, were made for accomplishing 
this result. 

For instance, in one case the sensitized surface was 
moved continuously and a series of lenses travelling at 
the same speed were moved behind the sight opening, so 
that the image remained — and here was -the difficulty — 
practically stationary. In another case during the period 
of exposure a single lens was moved in the direction of 
the film so as to keep the image stationary, the lens being 
moved in the opposite direction during the period of non- 
exposure ; but such an apparatus was not suited for rapid 

In stuT anotner »rase sixteen lenses were used with two 
films, one of which wias moved during the successive ex- 
posures of eigln^of the lenses, but such an apparatus in 
addition to necessitating the cutting up and rearrange- 
ment of each picture was bpen to the optical objection 
that the pictures were not alf .taken from the same point 
of view, as observed by the eye. 

Mr. Edison, in his first work, v endeavored to solve the 
problem by making the pictures macroscopic, so that the 
necessary movements of the surface w«uld be very slight. 
Is it not remarkable with our present feiowlsdge that 
during the fifty years or more that the possi&aJity of ob- 
taining motion pictures was appreciated no inyen*or was 
courageous enough to even suggest, much. less than to 
attempt, to secure the pictures on a single film with* a 
single lens, holding the film stationary during the 



moments of exposure and moving it forward during the 
periods of non-exposure? 

Simple as it now seems it was a bold conception on 
Mr. Edison's part that photographs in this way could be 
secured at rates between fifteen and forty per second. 

The birth of the modern moving picture art may be 
said to date from the Summer of 1889, at which time Mr. 
Edison had constructed a camera possessing all the at- 
tributes of the perfected apparatus and by means of which 
he was enabled to secure on a continuous celluloid him 
forty-six pictures per second, sharp in detail and each 
one inch in width and substantially three-quarters of an 
inch in height. 

The first camera thus constructed is still in existence, 
and, except for its size, being affectionately referred to 
as the "dog-house," it is as good and as perfect a device 
for its purpose as any camera that may now be built. It 
uses a sprocket feed, engaging two rows of perforations 
in the sides of the film, it has two retorts for containing 
the unexposed film and for receiving the exposed film; 
and in all other respects is a fully developed apparatus. • 

Mr. Edison made application for his patent on August 
24, 1891, and the patent was issued on August 31, 1897. 
As a result of litigation it was found that the patent was 
too broad, numerous prior descriptions of which Mr. 
Edison knew nothing, but of which the law presumed he 
should have known everything, not having been cited by 
the Patent Office. Consequently to correct the error the 
patent was reissued on September 30, 1 902. 

This patent has been sustained by the Circuit Court of 
Appeals in New York in litigation, with which I presume 
everyone in- the business is familiar. 

As a result of that litigation, Mr. Edison's position in 
the moving picture art has been judicially determined. 
He was the first, according to the decision, to make a 
motion picture camera using a single lens and with a 
single film, wherein the film is brought to rest and so 
maintained during each exposure, and is moved forward 
during each period- of non-exposure, the movements be- 
ing sufficiently rapid to secure the. desired number of 
photographs per second, and the mechanism being of 
such a character that the photographs shall be uniform 
and sharp and shall not require cutting up and rearrange- 
ment prior to printing. 

Until August 31, 1914, at least as I interpret the de- 
cision of the Circuit Court of Appeals, no one can make 
a camera having these features without embodying Mr. 
Edison's invention, and in infringement of his patent 
Possibly inventors may succeed in producing forms of 
apparatus in which continuously moving films or a con- 
siderable number of lenses, or a plurality of films may be 
used which. could not be fairly said to embody the Edison 
invention, but it is sufficient to say that no such device 
has so far been constructed, and we must, wait until it 
appears before we can say that it does or does not invade 
the right secured by the Edison patent. 



Mark M. Leichter, the noted Western cartoonist, has been 
served with an injunction preventing him from using an enlarg- 
ing apparatus that he has invented to project his cartoons. Bert 
Levy, now playing the United Time and a native of the Anti- 
podes, is the complainant. 

Mr. Leichter*s apparatus is said to be built entirely on dif- 
ferent plans and he has prepared himself to defend his successful 
invention, which is. an improvement, on Levy's apparatus. The 
time that Mr. Leichter built his apparatus he had not the slightest 
idea of Mr. Levy's machine nor did he think that there was any- 
thing of that variety on exhibition. The case is called for the 
first Monday in January and should be of interest to all vaude- 
villians. 

Tearing this time Mr. Leichter is kept from showing and * 
good ^ct is kept from the public. 
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681 




JAMES ®. CLAl^SL 

of tHe Pittsburgh Colcitata Light Co. 
THE P1FLES1DBNT 

VnHad Film Satrico Protective Association off TJ 

S. A... and oho soado tfiao following 

snaoaa^e to tne trade. 

'I feel that the United Film Service Protective Asso- 
ciation, organized in Chicago, December 14, will prove 
to be the very best step those interested in the moving 
picture business in all its branches could possibly take 
for the general' welfare of the business. The widespread 
interest in the movement was shown by the large attend- 
ance at the Chicago meeting. Almost every film renting, 
jobbing and manufacturing concern in the United States 
was represented, which in itself shows how well all 
branches of the business realize the urgent necessity for 
some action toward the general uplifting of the moving, 
picture industry. I believe the forming of this associa- 
tion marks the beginning of the end of the various forms 
of abuse to which this great industry has been subject, 
and the abolishment of these abuses means the beginning 
of the most prosperous era' the manufacturers, renters 
and exhibitors have ever known. 

The film manufacturers will, I believe, in the near fut- 
ure make film subjects such as we have never before 
dreamed of. as they will have the assurance that they 
will have the members of this association . to properly 
handle and rent their productions at a price in keeping 
with their value, and they will feel that they can put 
more time, money and thought into their productions than 
if this association were not in existence. What incentive 
has the manufacturer at the present time to get out a 
splendid film production, and have some film exchange 



send it out the first day to an exhibitor who runs six 
or seven reels per week, in a city of, say, 50,000 inhabi- ' 
tants, have him run it one day and return it when prob- 
ably only one or two thousand people in the town have 
seen it, and no other exhibitor in the town will ever 
show it again ? In this manner a beautiful production , 
is killed forever in this city, when not one-tenth of its | 
inhabitants have ever seen it. Does it not seem a shame 
that a manufacturer will spend possibly thousands of 
dollars and months of valuable time getting up a great 
picture, only to be discarded after running one day? It 
is enough to discourage manufacturers trying to produce 
you might say "works of art," when they are treated in 
this manner. I have been advised, and believe, that a 
certain subject ran five hundred consecutive nights in 
Paris ; in the United States it lasts one day. 

The exhibitors are themselves to blame mostly for the 
poor films they may have shown, because the demand for 
new subjects is so great that the makers do not have 
the time to turn out subjects you would otherwise receive. 
I hope the exhibitor does not feel that this association 
is going to hurt him, as it is exactly the reverse, as the 
public should be the first consideration, and the exhibitor 
the next, for on them we all depend -and the exhibitor 
certainly does not presume that we are going to choke 
off the source of our existence. I believe that with the 
films that are going to be produced, and each succeeding 
one better than the one before, and the elimination of 
old, scratched and worn films, the patronage of the five- 
cent theaters will steadily increase and the exhibitor will 
again be back on the same money-making basis he once 
was. 

Personally, I advocate the discontinuance of the use 
of old scratched or worn films, also the abolishment of 
six or seven changes of subjects per week, and the stop- 
ping of the production of films showing crime or sug- 
gestiveness. 

If the manufacturers will confine their energies to pro- 
ducing comedies, comedy dramas, fairy tales and clean 
dramas, I believe the present agitation against the moving 
picture shows in some cities will soon cease. 

Nfow that this association has been started by the elec- 
tion of officers, I ask the members and also the exhibitors 
throughout the country to give these officers their support 
in every way, and by the combined efforts of all persons 
interested in any way in this great industry, we will 
be able to lift it from the depths into which it has fallen 
and put it on a basis which will not only make it profit- 
able, but educational arid instructive, as well as amusing, 
and by so doing, perpetuate a business which at the pres- 
ent time is fast cothing to an untimely end. 

Let the exhibitor make his place bright, cosy and in- 
viting, and cater to the best element of his town, and not 
have it passed by as a place not fit for ladies or children. 
Let all the bitter competition and trying to put the other 
fellow out of business stop, and let us all work together 
as one, for the betterment of the most popular priced 
amusement" the world has ever seen, and which should 
be on a par with the highest class theater, and which de- 
serves better treatment than it has been accorded. 

Art, from the world's beginning, has found its pedestal 
in time ; so it will be with animated photography. 

In conclusion, I hope the enthusiasm which is now 
being displayed will not be allowed to die down, and that 
the meeting to be held in Buffalo on January IX, 1908, 
will see the business placed on a foundation so solid that 
it will prosper as never before. .- . 

Yours truly, 

James B. Clapk. 



682 



THE MOVING PICTURE WORLD. 



The U. F. S. P. A. 



Saturday, December 14, 1907, will long be 
a red letter day in the history of the moving 
picture industry. 

The members of the Association from all 
parts of the State gathered in the Grand 
Pacific Hotel, Chicago, and at once pro- 
ceeded to elect officers as follows: 

OFFICERS ELECTED AT CHICAGO CON- 
VENTION. 

President, J. S.. Clark, Pittsburg Calcium Light 

Co., Pittsburg, Pa. 
First Vice-President, F. C. Aiken, Theater Film 

Service Co., Chicago, 111. 
Treasurer, P. L. Waters, Kinetograph Co., New 

York, N. V. 
Members Executive Committee: C. H. Peckham, 

Cleveland Film Renting Co., Cleveland, Ohio; 

F. J. Howard, Boston, Mass. 

The following are the firms represented 
and the names of the delegates present: 

FILM SERVICES AND REPRESENTATIVES. 
BOSTON. 

Howard Moving Picture Co., 564 Washington St. 

Rep., F. J. Howard. 
Miles Bros., 259 and 261 Sixth ave., New York 
City. 

Rep., Herbert L. Miles. 

BIRMINGHAM. 

The Bailey Film Service, 116 21st st 

Rep., C. F. Bailey. 
Southern Film Exchange, 103 N. 20th st. 

Rep., Abernathy. 
Theatre Film Supply Co. 

Rep., A. R. Boone. 

BUFFALO. 

Powers Machine & Film Co., 13 Genesee st. 
Rep., J. A. Schuchart. 

CHICAGO. 

Chicago Film Exchange. 

Rep., Max Lewis. 
Inter-Ocean Film Exchange, 59 Dearborn st. 

Rep., Eugene Cline. 
Temple Film Exchange. 

Rep., Eugene Cline. 
U. S. Film Exchange, 59 Dearborn St. 

Rep.. Eugene Cline. 
Eugene Cline, 59 Dearborn St. 

Retu- Eugene Cline. 
Globe Film Service Co. 

Rep., T. Schuchat. 
Laemmle Film Service, 196 Lake st. 

Rep., Carl Laemmle. 
W. H. Swanson & Co. 

Rep., W. H. Swanson. 
Standard Film Exchange, Unity Bldg. 

Rep.. Joseph Hopp. 
Union Morion Picture Service Co. 

Rep., Selig. 
Theatre Film Service Co. 

Rep., F. C. Aiken. 
National Film Rental Co. 

Rep., George Spoor. 
Kleine Optical Co.. 52 State St. 

Rep., George Kleine. 
Geo. K. Spoor Co. 

Rep.. George K- Spoor. . 

Twentieth Century Optiscope Co., State and Lake 
sts. 

Rep.. R. G. Bachman. 
Royal Film Service, 253 La Salle st. 

Rep., Robert Miller. 
American Film Service. 

Rep., Van RunkeL 
Edison Display Co., 67 South Clark St. 

Rep., 

CINCINNATI. 

Southern Film Exchange. 
Rep., Thomas A. Reilly. 

CLEVELAND. 

Cleveland Film Renting Exchange, Citizens - Bank 
Bldg. 

Rep., C. H. Peckham. 
Lake Snore Film Exchange. 

Rep., C. Madelbaum. 

Rep., Eugene E. Cline. 

COLUMBUS. 

Ohio Film Exchange. 

Rep., J. W. Mgchoir^ 

' Rep.. J. D. Whalen. _ 
Southern Talking Machine Co. 
Rep., C. B. Harris. 



DENVER. 

Kleine Optical Co. 

Rep., George Kleine. 
Little & Pratt, Charles Bldg. 

Rep., Pratt. 

Rep., Max Lewis. 



DES MOINES. 

Pittsburg Calcium Light & Film Co. 

Rep., James B. Clark. 
Kleine Optical Co. 

Rep., George Kleine. 

DETROIT. 

National Film Co., Telegraph Bldg. 

Rep., Phil Gleichman. 
Michigan .Film & Supply Co., Butler Bldg. 

• Rep., Charles J. Strong. 
Detroit Film Exchange, Newberry Bldg. 

Rep., W. H. Goodfellow. 



Rep., O. T. 



EL PASO. 
Clamfore. 

EVANSVILLE. 



Empire Film Co., 106 Fulton st. 

Rep., F. Graf. 
Actograph Co., 50 Union Square. . .." 

Rep., N. fl. Mosher. 
Improved Film Supply Co., 104 Attorney St. 

Rep;, J. Weinberg. 
Harstn & Co., 13 E. 14th st 

Rep<y A. L. Harstn. 

NORFOLK. 

Virgina Film Co., Monticello Arcade Bldg. 
(Branch-^Warner, Pittsburg.) 
Rep., Warner L. French. 

OMAHA. 

Rep., Carl LaewinalL 



ONEIDA. 
Max Lewis. 

PHILADELPHIA. 



Laemmle Film Service. 
Rep., Carl Laemmle. 



GRAND RAPIDS. 



J. Gillingham. 
Rep., Gillingham. 



HARRISBURG. 

Keystone Film & Supply Co. 
Rep., P. Morgan. 

INDIANAPOLIS. 

Indianapolis Calcium Liglt & Film Exchange Co., 
114 South Capitol ave- 

Rep.. W. M. Swain. 
Luther Day Service Co. 

Rep., Luther Day. 

KANSAS CITY. 

Yale Film Renting Co., 1116 Main st. 

Rep., A. D. Flintom. 
Charles M. Stebbins, 1028 Main St.. 

Rep., Charles M. Stebbins. 

Rep., Eugene E. Cline- \ ■ • 

Twentieth Century Optiscope Co., State and Lake 
sts. (Chicago, IH.) 

Rep., R. G. Bachman. 

LOS ANGELES. 
Talley Film Exchange. 



ley n 
Rep., 



W. H. Clune. 



MEMPHIS. 



Rep., Carl LaewinalL _•. 

American Film Exchange, 504 Mathews Bldg. 
Rep., H. E. Aitken. 

MINNEAPOLIS. 



S. Lubin. 

Rep., S. W. Singhi. 
Electric Theatre Supply Co. 

Rep., Henry 'Schwible. 
Louis M. Swaab. 

Rep.,' Louis M. Swaab. 
Kohl Film Rental Co., 913 Market St. 

Rep., Chas. W. Kohl. 
C. A. Calenhuff, 4th and Green sts. 

Ren., Chas. A. Calenhuff. 

Miles Bros.', 259 and 261 Sixth ave.. New York 



Kleine Optical Co. 

Rep., Geo. Kleine. 

Rep., Eugene E. Cline. 
Twin City Calcium 4 Stereopticon Co., 720 Hen- 
nepin ave. 

Rep., C E. Van Duzce. 
Northwestern Film Co. 

Rep.. 

MONTREAL. 

Quimetoscope Film Exchange, 624. St. Catherine 
St., East. * 

Rep., L. E. ' Quimet. 

NEW ORLEANS. 

W. H. Swanson 4 Co. - 
Rep., W. H. Swanson. 

NEW YORK, 

Kinetograph Co., 41 E. 21st St. 

Rep., Percy Walters. 
Miles Bros., 259 and 261 Sixth ave. 

Rep., Herbert L. Miles. 
Alfred Weiss Film Exchange, 219 Sixth ave. 

Rep., Alfred Weiss. 
Consolidated Film Exchange of New York, 143 

E. 23d st. 
, Rep., L. W. Ullman. 
Vitagraph Co., 116 Nassau st. 

Rep., Mr. Rock. 
Kleine Optical Co. 

Rep., George Kleine. . ■_ 

Greater New York Film Rental Co., 24 Union 
Square. 

Reps.. Fox & Brill. -_ .. 

Peoples Film Exchange, 126 University Place- 
Rep., Marcus Loew. 
Imperial Film Exchange. 

Rep., W. F. Steiner. 
The ETectograph. 

Reps-, Beck & Gunby. 



Cit 



tep., Herbert L. Miles. 

PITTSBURG. 
Pittsburgh Calcium Light & Film Co.. 121 . Fourth 

ave. 

Rep., James B.. Clark. 
Pennsylvania Film Co., 403 Lewis Block. 
Rep., Paul Qualtrough. 
_^uesi 
Bldg. 

Rep., H. M. Warner. - 
Fort Pitt Film Supply Co. 

Rep., Dave Margoff. 
American Film Exchange. 

Rep., J. L. Reilly. 
Columbia Film Exchange, 414 Ferguson Bldg. 
Rep... A. S. Davis. 

Wonderland Film Exchange, 410 Market st. 
Rep'., H. A. Lande. 

PORTLAND 

Miles Bros., 259 and 261 Sixth ave.. New York 
City. 

Rep., Herbert L. Miles. 

SALT LAKE CITY. 
Rep., Eugene E. Cline. 



SAN FRANCISCO. 

Miles Bros., 259 and 261 Sixth ave.. New York 
. City. 

Repa, Herbert L. Miles. 
Novelty Moving Picture. 



:lty Mo' 
Rep., 



SEATTLE 



Kleine Optical Co. 

Rep.. George Kleine. 

Rep., Max Lewis. 
Edison Display Co., 27 S. .Clark St., Chicago, IlL 

Rep.. Morgan. \ 

ST." LOUIS. ' * 

O. T. Crawford Film Exchange, Gayety Theatre 
Bldg. 

Rep., O. T. Crawford. 
W. H. Swanson, St. Lotus Film Co. 

Ren., W. H. Swanson. 
Miles Bros., 259 and 261 Sixth ave.. New York 

Rep., Herbert L. Miles. 
Rep., Eugene E. Cline. 

TOLEDO. 

Toledo Film Exchange, Spitzer Arcade. 

Rep., L. M. Salsgiver. 
Kent Film Service. 

Rep- 
Toledo Film Supply Co. 
irt. 



Rep., Richar 



TROY. 



* 



Imperial Moving Picture. - 
Rep., Steiner. 

WATERTOWN, N. Y. 

MulUn Film Service. 
. Re©., 

After strenuous sessions Saturday. and 
Sunday the meeting adjourned till January 
j I to meet at Buffalo. 



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Sunday in New Yos-R. 

New York took stock of itself yesterday to see how it liked a 
blue Sunday. The clergy seemed to like it, though there was 
some dissent from the strict interpretation of the law. 

"It was a pretty tight Sunday," is was suggested to Mayor 
McClellan. 

"Those were my orders," the Mayor answered. He declined 
to discuss his probable action with regard to the ordinance which 
will be put through the Board of Aldermen to-day for the re- 
lief of the situation brought about by Justice O'Gorman's decision 
in the Hammerstein case. Alderman Doull has in charge the 
preparation of the relieving ordinance for to-day's session of 
the Aldermen, although "Little Tim" Sullivan will look after 
its passage. _ Little effective opposition to its passage is expected. 
It was predicted last night that on next Sunday the city would 
not be governed under the O'Gorman interpretation of the law. 

The Doull ordinance was submitted tp Corporation Counsel 
Pendleton for advice, and he and the Mayor had a long con- 
ference over it yesterday morning, 1 

"Mr. Doull's ordinance is now in the hands of one of my 
subordinates." said Corporation Counsel Pendleton yesterday. 
"I think that it is framed so as riot to conflict with the Penal 
Code. I don't think the Penal Code prohibits lectures, for in- 
stance. Why, suppose a missionary should return from Africa 
and want to tell of his experiences there? The Penal Code 
wouldn't stop that, even though it might be very entertaining 
because of the humor of it or for other reasons." 

"Could a monologist on a vaudeville stage tell funny stories," 
Mr. Pendleton was asked, "provided he were disguised as a 
missionary?" 

"Ah, that would be up to the police. I can't tell just what 
would be allowed by the Penal Code. After all, no matter what 
ordinance is passed by the Board of Aldermen, some decision of 
the Supreme Court will sooner or later have to be had on the 
question, and then the way will be made clear." 

It is understood that Alderman Doull's ordinance provides 
for seven sorts of entertainment on Sunday. Manifestly, among 
them will be such lectures as are had at the Young Men's Chris- 
tian Association and other places. • and such straight musical 
programmes as are given- at Carnegie Hall. 

Just what else is included in Mr. Doull's measure is not defin- 
itely known. The doomed section of the charter specifically pro- 
hibits interludes, but the Penal Code doesn't mention them. Just 
what can be included under "interludes" depends on the ingenuity 
of the Aldermen. 

Webster's Dictionary says that an interlude is a short enter- 
tainment between the acts of a play; a short, merry, farcical 
form of the play; or a short piece of music. Much might be 
done with interlude. - j 

The Federation of Churches and Christian Organization will 
try to get the board to postpone the. consideration of any ordi- 
nance to-day, pending the thrashing out of the question as to 
whether a commission might not be appointed to look after the 
matter of Sunday entertainments. 

At a meeting of the Methodist Preachers' Association yester- 
day the unanimous sentiment, as expressed in a resolution, was 
that the Sunday law, even as laid down by Justice O'Gorman, 
should be enforced to the letter, and the police should be com- 
mended by letter for their successful work on Sunday. 

At an interdenominational meeting held last night at the 
Marble Collegiate Church, under the auspices of the National 
Bible Institute, it was decided to work hard to maintain such 
Sundays as the last New York had. and be represented at the 
meeting of the Aldermen to-day. 

On the other hand, the regular vaudeville theaters will have 
powerful aid at the board meeting. The German societies, with 
a membership of at least 100,000, will be presented. And the 
5po penny arcades, nickelodeons, moving picture emporiums, and 
similar centers of "entertainment," will bring influence to bear 
to-day, and amen? these influences will likely be "Big Tim" 
Sulhvap. who owns some of these places. 

It will be possible to get an ordinance through the board, by 
we Mayor, and all signed, and in full force by next Sunday. Al- 
derman Doull said he did not look for much opposition. 

Asked yeterday afternoon what he would do in case an ordi- 
nance relieving the situation was passed. Commissioner Bingham 



said that he would in all cases rely upon the advice of the Cor- 
poration Counsel. He declared himself as fairly well satisfied 
with the conduct of the police on Sunday. ^— — - 

"They did pretty well," he went on. "I was afraid of some 
fool breaks. They made fewer than I expected. Justice O'Gor- 
man's decision as to Sunday amusements made the way abso- 
lutely plain. And, as I say, the Sunday closing was especially at- 
tended to on this last Sabbath." 

In accordance with Justice O'Gorman's decision, the doors of 
SCO concert halls and theaters were closed ; but the back-room of 
5,000 saloons and all the billiard and pool parlors, together with 
bowling alleys, were wide open. 

Every one of these did the largest business for any Sunday 
in their history, and never before were so many intoxicated men 
seen in the streets. 

Dancing academies and roller skating rinks were closed tight, 
while restaurants and beer gardens operated under restaurant 
licenses were permitted to run without hindrance and with musi- 
cal accompaniment. 

For the first time in December in fifty years no ball was held 
on Sunday night in Tammany Hall. 

With one exception in Manhattan all the proprietors of the 
penny arcades and nickelodeons followed the lead of the owners 
of the large theaters, and kept their places closed. The solitary 
exception was that of the lessees of a little nickel moving pic- 
ture show called the Comedy Theater, at No. 68 West One Hun- 
dred and Twenty-fifth street. 

This place seats 300 people, and holds shows every fifteen min- 
utes. It started at 1 o'clock and did a land office business all 
day, the only intermission being between 8 and 9 o'clock, when 
the doors were closed for a short time while the police con- 
ducted a raid and carried to the station house Mrs. Ethel Gor- 
don, of No. 64 West One Hundred and Seventh street, who was 
acting as cashier; Edward Bault, the ticket taker; F. Brier, the 
picture machine operator, and George Klein, the barker. 

At the station house these persons were promptly bailed by 
the owners of the theater, Brill & Fox, and immediately returned 
to the receipt of customs. Their employers told the police that 
they were keeping their place open under the . instructions of 
their attorneys, who held that an injunction obtained by them 
in the Supreme Court of Kings County last week, restraining the 
police from interfering with their Sunday shows, covered their 
case. 

Notwithstanding the fact that all the so-called sacred concerts 
and theatrical amusements were closed, the attendance at the 
churches was not above the normal. 

Brooklyn to-day is gradually recovering from the effects of 
the first "blue" Sunday in its history. It caught the masses of 
the people off their guard and had them dazed. Along toward 
evening they were helpless, and utterly hopeless of discovering 
any place of amusement where they might leave some of their 
hard-earned shekels, they turned their steps homeward. Brook- 
lyn yesterday was about as lively as Coney Island is on a bleak 
December day. With the exception of five moving picture shows,* 
which were protected by injunctions, there was nothing in the 
line of amusement open to the public. 

At the Fourth Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church an illusr- 
trated lecture was postponed after a conference of Officials of 
the church with Captain Summers, of the Fourth Avenue Sta- 
tion. An illustrated lecture, advertised to take place at the Cen- 
tral Branch of the Y. M. C. A., was also put off. 

At Christ Episcopal Church, Canon William Sheafe Chase, the 
pastor, who was one of the prime movers against Sunday per- 
formances in theaters, referred to the decision of Judge O'Gor- 
man and said that representatives of the Federation of Churches 
would probably appear before the Board of Aldermen at to- 
morrow s session and favor the appointment of a Sunday Concert 
Commission. 

* * * 

REV. EDWARD NILES TELLS OF VICTORY. 

At the White Church yesterday morning the Rev. Edward 
Niles, secretary of the Interdenominational Committee for the 
Suppression of the Sunday Vaudeville, said : 

"This organization was formed in response to appeals from 
the Actors' Alliance and labor unions to help them in fighting 
for a day of rest. It has been an uphill fight, with that sturdy 
Christian warrior, Canon Chase, ever at the fore. Of course, 
the syndicates which, control the Sunday open theaters and the 
other syndicate running the moving picture shows fought tooth 
and nail. Their chief reliance was upon 'the law's delay.' They 
knew our minutes were mortgaged heavily, that we were poor, 
that sitting around at court and taking the time-exhausting trips 
to court to have causes adjourned were terrible punishments. 
They played, the game for all it was worth, and openly boasted 
that we had been worn out by similar tactics in the past and 
would be this time. They knew that the plain words 'any enter- 



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tainment of the stage,' meant them. But every Sunday show 
before the inevitable shutdown meant money. To their surprise 
we kept pegging away. Some theaters, to their credit, refused 
to tje lawbreakers from the start. Others came to tardy repent- 
ance. Twelve in Brooklyn were persistent criminals. 

"Pending a final decision, the city officials have only acted 
when nagged beyond endurance. It has taken a year to get it 
To-day we are to have the law enforced. 

"We are told that the Sunday theater is an aid to temper- 
ance. I notice that the saloon owners are rendering no aid to 
us, however, in closing their rivals. Although treasurer of the 
movement and much in need of funds, I have not received a cent 
from such a source." 

* * * 

It was discovered November Ii that the Aldermanic Com- 
mittee, to which the proposed ordinance for relief from the 
Sunday "blue laws" has been referred, may report its conclusions 
when it pleases. If it elects to do so it may make the remaining 
Sundays in December "closed" ones. The question may be left 
for the new board that comes in. on January I. 

The only way the Board of Aldermen can circumvent the com- 
mittee, should its members indicate a purpose of keeping the 
matter hanging fire, is to discharge it. This would not be easy, 
as such action would require a two-thirds vote. 

When the committee was appointed by the board it was be- 
lieved by Alderman Reginald S. Doull that he had moved it 
should make a report at the regular meeting to be held Tuesday, 
17th. An examination of the minutes failed to show any such 
provision. Doull could not understand how such a mistake had 
been made. He said he was positive that he had moved the 
committee report next Tuesday. He said that somebody had 
"blundered seriously." The minutes of aldermanic meetings are 
taken stenograpphically. Doull asserted that he would find a way 
to make the committee report on Tuesday. 

It can be stated authoritatively that Mayor McClellan will sign 
the Doull amendment to the Sunday "blue laws" or any similar 
measure which may be adopted by the Board of Aldermen. It 
is known that he has examined the amendment, which is to be 
given a public hearing in committee, and approves of it in spirit 
and in form. 

Mayor McClellan said that he did not wish to discuss the 
matter, as it would finally be submitted to him and he must deal 
with it in a judicial capacity. 

Leslie Willis Sprague, associate leader of Prof. Felix Adler, 
of the Society of Ethical Culture, and who is at the head of the 
society in Brooklyn, expressed these views on the "closed" Sun- 
day question: 

The motive of Sunday legislation in this State, as elsewhere, 
is not worthy. It is mainly expressive of traditional views and 
attempts to impose ideas of a part of the community upon the 
rest of the public. 

"It is at bottom religious legislation. Therefore it is not in 
keeping with the true spirit of our government 

"The immediate cause of the temporary enforcement of the 
present law is also representative of the determination of a few 
ecclesiastically minded people to dominate our institutions. This 
attempt is worthy only in so far as it represents a determination 
to enforce the law. But it is unworthy in so far as it represents 
Sabbatarian rather than humanitarian purposes. 

"It is desirable that there should be Sunday laws, but some- 
how a legal distinction must be made between educational and up- 
lifting art and degrading amusement; a separation of the whole- 
some from the vicious. 

"Sunday legislation is needed, but not of the. kind which shall 
be dictated by a few. It must be predicated on the desires of 
the many. I think the outcome of this present condition might 
easily sweep away all legislation. This would be lamentable. 

"No thought .has been given to the good of the people. Their 
morals must be safeguarded and walls of legislation must be 
reared. But they must be different walls and of far more hon- 
est material than they have known." 

ALDERMEN WIPE BLUE SUNDAY OFF THE 
CALENDAR. 

Adopt by Vote of 47 to 18 the World's Ordinance Legalizing 
Enjoyment of Harmless Amusements. 

There will not be another "blue" Sunday in New York. The 
Board of Aldermen adopted, by a vote of 47 to 18, The World's' 
ordinance, which was drafted by Alderman Reginald S. Doull, 
to relieve the public from the puritanical code forbidding any 
amusement or popular form of recreation on Sunday. 

The ordinance will -go to Mayor McClellan, and it can be said 
authoritatively that he will sign it Before it was introduced 
in the Board of Aldermen two weeks ago the Mayor signified 
that it represented his views. The Corporation Counsel also 
approved its legality. 

The Aldermanic meeting was a peppery session literally and 



figuratively. .Soon after it began a man in the crowded gallery 
sifted about a pound of cayenne pepper among the throng of 
spectators standing below. Sneezing and coughing and the wip 
ing away of tears became the occupation of everybody in the rear 
of the chamber. The shuffling 01 feet and general commotion 
sent some of the fiery particles up to the gallery, and the dis- 
turbance which ensued was suppressed only after repeated 
threats by President McGowan to have every spectator ejected. 

It was following the reading of the report of the Committee 
on Laws and Legislation to which the Doull amendment was 
referred and which held a public hearing. The committee rec- 
ommended a substitute ordinance. The word "wholly" was in- 
serted before the words "sacred and educational concerts," and 
the phrase "or any other performances of the stage" was in- 
serted. Besides these changes it was provided that upon the 
complaint of two citizens the Corporation Counsel must sue for 
a $500 fine and the revocation of the license of any manager 
or proprietor of any public placeof amusement violating the law. 

The moment Alderman Frank K. Sturges, chairman of_the 
committee, had read this report, Alderman Morris was on his 
feet with a minority report, recommending the Doull ordinance 
as it stood. This question was put and arguments became gen- 
eral. Morris said that the Sturges substitute would be in con- 
flict with the Penal Code. 

Alderman Doull said his ordinance permitted what the Penal 
Code did not prohibit and he doubted that the Corporation 
Counsel would approve the substitute. He urged that his ordi 
nance was one whose language could not be misunderstood. 

Alderman Dr. George Everson, of Brooklyn, read a letter 
from Canon William Sheafe Chase, who is the leader in the 
forces desirous Of a "closed" Sunday. The communication di- 
rected the Alderman's attention to. the defeat of a candidate for 
Alderman in Everson's neighborhood and then continued: 

"Your district is opposed to vaudeville and moving-picture 
shows on Sunday. If you vote to shut out moving-pictures and 
.vaudeville you will never be sorry, but you will regret it if you 
don't" 

The gallery whooped and clapped its approval of these senti- 
ments. It quieted down only when the. chairman threatened 
to have everybody put out 

Alderman Meyers led the Republican wing against the ordi- 
nance and Alderman Sullivan moved to close the debate. Here 
Alderman Mulligan was recognized by the Chair, but Henry Clay 
Peters wanted the floor. He demanded to be heard, but every 
word he uttered was met with a crash of McGowan's gaveL 

Five minutes later the calling of the roll on the adoption of 
the_ Doull ordinance reached Peters. Other— Alermen had ex- 
plained their votes. He left his seat and said he wanted to ex- 
plain his vote. 

"You cannot speak," said President McGowan. "How does 
the Alderman vote? State your vote." 

Peter's face became distorted by rage. 

"I shall take legal steps to get my rights!" he shouted. "This 
is blackguardism?' 

He said a lot more which was lost in the commotion which 
reigned. Hisses and cat calls and groans filled the chamber. The 
sergeants-at-arms .were ordered to suppress him, but he brushed 
them aside. He became so excited finally that he. could not 
speak and slouched into his seat, forgetting to record his vote. 

These are the essential provisions of the Doull ordinance: 

"Provided, however, that nothing herein contained shall be 
deemed to prohibit at any such place or places on the first day 
of the week, commonly called Sunday, sacred or educational vocal 
or instrumental concerts, lectures, addresses, recitations and sing- 
ing, provided that such above-mentioned entertainments shall 
be given in such a manner as not to disturb the public peace, 
or amount to a serious interruption of the repose and religions 
liberty of the community." 



* * * 



• The captain of police notified each and every manager of the 
five-cent and legitimate theaters in Troy, N. Y., that they would 
not be allowed to open on Sunday evenings. 

If we are allowed to ask why cannot a respectable place open 
on Sundays, where the poorer class of respectable working men 
take their families to spend one or one and one-half hours of 
enjoyment, and still all the saloons in town do a flourishing 
business with moving pictures and illustrated songs right under 
the captain's nose, what's the answer? 

C. L. Lasher and son, of the Bijou Moving Picture Show, 
Albert Lea, Minn., have leased the theater at Little Falls, Mirn., 
and besides their show here and out at Bemidji, will conduct a 
like entertainment at the former chy; 

. * * * 

As the result of two and a half years' labor, George A. 

Knaak, Oshkosh, Wis^ has perfected a moving picture machine, 

which he has named the "Peerless Kinetograph," and has or- 

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taws of Wisconsin to manufacture the machines. The com- 
pany has been capitalized at $10,000, and its incorporators are 
Charles R. Heisinger, Thomas M. Keefe and George A. Knaak, 
all of Oshkosh. Its plant is located at 38 Ceape street, where 
Mr. Knaak has been conducting his experimental work for about 
a year. The manufacture of the machines has required the use 
of a large amount of special machinery, which 'Mr. Knaak had 
built after designs of his own, and which is already in operation. 
/ * * * 

A special moving picture matinee was given recently at the 
Eureka Theater, Cleveland, O. 

The guests were Judge Fiedler, Prosecutor Baer and Captain 
Shattuck, Patrolmen Kress and Hennie and Attorney Brinsmade. 
The party went there after an adjournment of Judge Fiedler's 
court to see moving picture films held up by the police at the 
Lyric and American Theaters, and "said to be suggestive of 
crime. m * 

W. R. Hines, manager of the American, and H. H. Burnett, 
of the Lyric, were arrested November 24 by Kress and Hennie. 
They pleaded not guilty and the judge decided to see the pictures 
himself. 

The first film shown to the select but appreciative audience 
was "Butt-in Bill, the Burglar." Two burglars break into a 
house. Butt-in Bill lays for them. He is himself held up and - 
taken by the police for the robbery, while the real culprits get 
away with the swag. This was exhibited at the American. The 
other film, from the Lyric, called a "Race for Millions," depicts 
a scene of Western life. It was filled- with love and gold and 

"The police have been making an effort to suppress pictures 
suggestive of crime," said Captain Shattuck, who has been in- 
strumental in pushing the crusade. "The police know well 
enough how much injury results from objectionable pictures 
paraded before the eyes of the young." 

The judge will take up the matter again. 

*" * * 

Sixty-one moving picture shows in St. Louis, discovered by 
the building commissioner, gives an idea where the people's 
money goes, even when they're hard up. 

* * * 

Sixty-one moving picture shows will be required to furnish 
better protection against fire, if the bill to be presented to the 
Council of Montfort, Wis., becomes a law. Building Commis- 
sioner Smith, after an inspection, says most of the shows have 
practically no fire protection. 

* * * 

W. B. & J. L. Loughridge have opened up a- moving picture 
show on West Fayette street, Celina, O. Ben and Les are both 
well known young men and will undoubtedly make a success of 
their new undertaking. This is now the only moving picture 

show in town. 

* * * 

Cosmopolitan Cameragrapb Co., New York, to give exhibi- 
tion's; capital, $5,000. Incorporators: Herman Baum, No. 208 
East Twenty-fifth street; Morris Cohn, No. 145 East Fifteenth 
street; Robert L. Levin son, No. 334 Bleecker street; Isidore 
Klatzkie, No. 155 East One Hundred and Eighth street, all of 
New York. 

* * * 

Adams, Mass., Board of Selectmen granted a license to 
Charles Palamatier for a moving picture theater in Park street. 

* * * 

The new electric theater which W. S. Oppenheimer will open 
shortly on Franklin street, Tampa, Fla., will be one of the best, 
in point of equipment, that can be found in the South. It wili 
be equipped with a kinodrom, manufactured by G. K. Spoor, in 
Chicago, and this will be the first of its kind to be installed in 
the South. The workmen have almost completed the interior 
of the room, and the installation of the picture machine will be- 
gin shortly. r 

* * * 

The ignition of a film in a moving picture machine, followed 
by the explosion of a calcium carbide generator, caused a fire 
in the Theatorium, 13d Grand avenue, Milwaukee, Wis., which 
resulted in a loss of about $80, according to the estimate of 
John E. Saxe, one of the proprietors. The operator of the 
moving picture machine. Earl Dennison, was severely burned 
about the hands and suffered a sprain of his right ankle. 

Operator Dennison had just shown a film and had neglected 
to remove it from the lantern. Light is furnished by acetylene 
gas. Sparks from the • flame dropped on the film, the ' flames 
communicated to the generator, and it exploded, the report fright- 
ening the audience of 120 people. Men, women and children 
rushed for the exits. 

The theater has been open for the last three years, and was 
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new front put in his theater, and is doing a big business, even 
his matinees increasing day by day. He ran the "Passion Play" 
for a week and by request put it on the next three days of the 
following week, playing to even better business than before. He 
is a K. of C. man, single, of course, and that accounts for the 
number of young ladies that frequent his establishment. 

* *. *. 

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He kindly donated his theater last Thursday afternoon to the 
orphan children of this city, and after they enjoyed the special 
pictures and songs, he gave them ice cream and cake. How the 
little ones enjoyed the treat you can well understand. 

Mr. S. Milliken, well known in the show' business, was in- 
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Troy can at least boast of having a moving picture film ex- 
change in the Imperial Moving Picture Co. It has already 
gained the name "Troy's busy office," and from reports they 
say that Bill is a hustler for the trade. 

* * * 

THE MOIR-BURNS FIGHT. 

The efficiency of the kinematograph as a means of accurate 
' record has again been very forcibly 1 illustrated this week. 

On Monday evening Tommy Burns, the. American, beat Gun- 
ner Moir at the National Sporting Club, in a fight for the 
Heavyweight Championship of the World. One of the most 
eagerly anticipated boxing matches ever held in this country, the 
Burns-Moir fight attracted a big house at the N. S. C. A vastly 
greater public, however, than could have been contained in the 
N. S. C, both here and in America, was keenly interested in the 
occasion. As far as America is concerned this large body has 
had to content, itself with the accounts which appeared in the 
newspapers, but in England a vivid picture of the fight through- 
out has already been issued by the Urban Company and shown 
at the Alhambra and other halls, and copies will also shortly be 
at the disposal of American showmen. 

The Urban Company has done some of its best work at the 
N. S. C, but probably none better than the 1,000 feet record 
they are offering of this event. The difficulties of photographing 
under such conditions as prevail at the scene of the fight are 
considerable, but by means of an elaborate and extensive in- 
stallation of eight electric lamps of 56,000 candle power, the com- 
pany have secured a record which, in our view, is not only equal 
to the best work done with natural light, but actually superior 
to a great deal of the latter, ( owing to the marked absence of 
shadows. 

Mr. Urban, with his usual foresight, had made all necessary 
arrangements to ensure a complete and successful .series being 
obtained. Two cameras were kept in operation during the whole 
of the ten rounds. This duplicating process was adopted as a 
precaution against possible loss of any part of the fight should 
circumstances arise which might hinder photographic work. 

From the preliminary handshake to the knock-out blow all the 
incidents of the fight are recorded. An account of the film .would 
be practically a repetition of the details of the fight appearing 
in the press. It is obvious fairly soon that Burns is getting the 
better of the exchanges, and apart from a fine and clearly 
shown rally in the fourth round, Moir was out-boxed, to be 
finally knocked out in the tenth round of what should have been 
a twenty-round contest. 

For completeness this series of kinematograph pictures con- 
stitutes a record, and it is obvious that it is of great value in 
consequence. Should any question' arise in. this or any other 
country as to the exact manner the fight was fought, the actions 
can as often as necessary be reproduced upon the lantern screen, 
thus affording an indisputable conclusion to any arguments. — 
The Kinematograph and Lantern Weekly. ' 

* * * 

In discharging William Hines, proprietor of the American 
moving picture theater in Superior avenue, N. E., and Hoyt 
Burnett, manager of the Lyric theater, charged in police court 
Friday with exhibiting' pictures inciting -to crime, Judge Fiedler 
threw out of court a case that was full of possibilities. 

Prosecutor Geier argued in recommending the discharge that 
a decision of guilt would make liable to prosecutions under the 
statutes all newspapers printing stories of crime ; the stage where 
melodramatic plots are acted; magazines, museums, every insti- 
tution where works of art or pictures or stories of criminal acts 
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the printing, publishing, writing as well as exhibiting pictures or 
stories of crime. 

The decision will serve as a guide for the police in future 
prosecutions. 

The pictures shown at the Lyric portrayed events not a whit 
more harrowing than those shown in "Salomy Jane" at the Opera 
House a. few week* ago. 

The film is entitled "A Race for * Millions." The hero, who 
has staked a gold claim, is shot; the heroine is held captive by 
the villain, who seeks to steal the hero's rich findings. 

But the hero gets free and kills the villain. The hero and 
heroine are reunited. Everyone is happy save the villain, and 
he doesn't know the difference by this time. 

The pictures at the American showed a country constable 
trying to capture two burglars. He recovers the goods and is 
himself arrested by the police mistaking him for the burglars. 
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It Pays To Advertise. 

Dayton, Ohio, December 14, 1907. 

Editor Moving Picture World: 

Dear Sir — In one of your July issues of The Moving 
Picture World I inserted a one-sixteenth of a page 
'ad," for which I paid you $3.25, advertising my Pathe 
"assion Play film for rent. Immediately after I received 
inquiries from your subscribers and since the "ad" ap- 
teared I received some fifty or sixty letters, and to date 
his one $3.25 "ad" has gotten business for me to the 
mount of $378.00 for film rental. This amount is 
iirectly traceable to the "ad" in your valuable paper. 

That your paper is treasured and stored. away for ref- 
rence can be verified by the fact that only yesterday 1 
eceived another inquiry from a party in Georgia, asking 
ae about my Passion Play film/ which he said he saw ad- 
ertised in a July Moving Picture World. 

After the one "ad" appeared I was. kept busy answer- 

g letters and found it unnecessary to repeat it since. 

That your paper is a valuable asset to any one inter- 
sted in the moving picture industry, whether it be manu- 

cturer, renter or exhibitor, there can be no doubt. 

Should you care to make use of any part or all of this 
letter you have my permission to do so. Thanking you 
* or favprs of the past and wishing you all success, I re- 

ain. Yours very truly, 

C. J. Kilian. 

* * * 

Coincidence. 

Boston, December if, 1907. 
iiior Moving Picture World: •_.,-.. 

Dear Sir— Do you care to state which is the originator of the 
ibject "Laughing Gas" and which the copier— Edison or the 
itagraph? I recommended one to a prominent vaudeville 
[Use, and they- received the other, ' which contained certain 
ings which they cut out. I did not suppose either house would 
guilty of such a practice. Yours truly, 

« John H. Thurston. 

[Jhe answer to the above letter as given to us by both the 
i|dison and Vitagraph companies is that it is one of those am- 
is coincidences that sometimes happen in life. The films are 
tirely different in subject and staging — only the name is simi- 
r - We trust this explanation will prove satisfactory to the 
ven correspondents whose letters are similar to above. — Ed.] 

* * * 

Operators* Union. 

Harrisburg, Pa., December 5, 1907. 
iior Moving Picture World: 

Should this reach you, approved by the Moving Picture Op- 
"tors' Union, No. 12370, of Philadelphia, Pa., I would be 
ed to see it in print in the near. future. It is called forth 
f the article of Mr. Raymond Harvey in November 23 issue, 
Wowed by your article in November 30 issue, entitled: "The 
Pernors' Association." While reading it, I was struck with 
* total absence of any reference to the Philadelphia union, but 
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Humanity demands sentiment, sympathy, heart in- 
terest and stirring; events to appease its nature. They 
like to watch happenings that touch these character- 
istics, and we bore this motto in mind when making 
our Christmas production "A CHRISTMAS ADOP- 
TION." It would be an injustice to this story picture 
to try and do it Justice in so short a description as 
this card will allow, nevertheless a good Idea can be 
gathered from the following: 

A clever crook secures a Job delivering a Xmas tree 
to a fashionable home. When Inside the house he 
secures a plan of same, and by the aid of a little chap 
(our hero) whom he has picked up in the streets and 
kept for the purpose of helping him In his crime, gains 
admission to the home. Their -work Is disturbed by 
the little girl of the house who hears a noise, and 
thinking: it is Santa Claus, gets out of bed and comes 
down stairs where the robbery is taking: place. The 
burglar is Just about to strike her when the little boy 
interferes; he saves the girl a blow, but gets one for 
his interference. The burglar now conceives the Idea 
(besides robbing the house) to kidnap the little girl 
for ransom. This he does, but he reckons without nis 
host, as the little boy also has formulated his plans; 
for when the burglar hands him the ransom note, he 
takes It, but comes back into the room where the lit- 
tle girl Is tied: he tears up the note, unties the girl, 
takes the stolen goods and quietly Jeaves. 

The next scene shows the distracted mother and 
father telling the police who have now arrived. The 
Officers are about to leave when the little boy walks 
In with the stolen plunder and the child. 'Explana- 
tions follow by the little girl, and our hero is adopted 
into the home and made a brother to the girl he saved. 



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the good' news from our secretary, a few lines of which I will 
quote later in this letter. 

I would like to say first that, personally, I would not be in 
favor of an association, at least as a name. I firmly believe that 
the quickest, best, surest and most successful way to become 
organized is by unionism, pure and simple. The results ob- 
tained already by the Philadelphia body I offer as proof of the 
assertion. The very first move towards forming the said union 
was to get in touch with the organizer and representative of 
the American .Federation of Labor to find out just how matters 
stood, and I assure our brother workers that it was not over 
six weeks until we had a charter on the walls of our meeting 
room. A short time afterwards an examining committee was 
appointed, and every member put through a mild examination, 
which' was deemed sufficient at that time. After experiencing 
numerous trials and tribulations, which new organizations usually 
have to encounter, I am informed that the membership is nearly 
forty, and the treasury is growing steadily. The union is just 
finishing up the first year of its birth and conditions^ have been 
greatly improved and wages also, without even a hint on our 
part. Just a proof of conditions before organizing. On top of 
it all, I learn there has been added lately to the A. F. of L. list 
of charters one in Boston, Mass., one in Galveston, Tex., and 
one in Indianapolis, Ind. We have reliable information that the 
entire forces of the representatives of the American Federation 
of Labor, covering nearly, if not all, the States in the Union, 
are scattering seeds sown by the organizing of the Philadelphia 
operators and the harvest has already begun. Therefore, if it 
is the wish and will of the operators in general, let us all throw 
aside the talk of forming an association and let us become union 
men at once without delay. The word association seems to me 
would be more appropriate to business men or employers, but 
hardly think we could get together quicker or surer than by tak- 
ing advantage of the work that has been accomplished by organ- 
ized labor farther back than I can remember, and whose doors 
are open to us, not to get us in and then hold us, but to put us 
on a firm, solid foundation until the time comes when we can say, 
We are ready to have a State or National body as our head. 

I hope to be allowed space later on to explain a few things 
regarding the rights and standing of unionized operators 
with the sister unions, such as: Theatrical Employees, Calcium 
Light Workers and Electrical Workers, who, your editorial 
says, throw out the operators' delegates arid who do not want 
us. Why? And who cares? Hoping I may have the privilege 
of explaining later on "to the best of my knowledge, I will close 
with personal thanks and good wishes from the organization, 
which will, in course of time, be looked up to as the leader in 
the movement to elevate the standard and ability of operators, 
which above will bring about the much desired results. 

M. E. Backenstoss. 

Harrisburg, Pa. 
Representing Moving Picture Operators' Union, No. 12370, 
Philadelphia, Pa. 

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Kingston, Ont, December 9. 1907. 

Editors Moving Picture World: 

Gentlemen : — Here is a news item I think will interest you : 

Saturday night was the annual election of the Queen's Col- 
lege Alma Mater Society. About 9.30 P. M., after results were 
announced, a body of 400 students came down town on a run 
and demanded admittance to the Bijou Theater. 

The house was then filled with mostly women- and children. 

The proprietor asked them kindly to go away and come back 
at eleven, when he would turn the house over to them. 

His offer was rejected, and the students made a rush, broke 
the doors down and smashed things up generally all around. 

The leader got into an argument with the piano player and was 
so badly damaged that he is now in the hospital. 

The house people, aided by several citizens, succeeded in put- 
ting out the few who succeeded in getting in. 

All at once the wires were cut on the outside, throwing the 
house into darkness. Half a dozen women fainted and a panic 
was narrowly averted. 

The people then in the house were compelled to leave by the 
back way. 

The students then divided, one-half staying in front of the 
Bijou and the other half went up to Wonderland, where they 
forced themselves in, too. 

After being entertained at Wonderland, they came up 'o the 

Princess Theater. There was no trouble here, as the last shot! 

for the night was then on, Mr. J. J. Allen, the manager, threw 

»the doors wide open and invited them all in and gave a special 

show for their benefit. 

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iousc he ever showed moving pictures to, the students being ac- 
companied by 200 kids. 

At eleven o'clock the entire crowd of 400 or 500 students 
were still besieging the Bijou, held back by four policemen, 
With drawn revolvers. 
The Alma Mater Society has sent representatives to the prop- 
rietor Of the Bijou, offering to settle for all damage. What 
e will do is not yet known. The police have the names of a 
alf a dozen ringleaders, and the charges, if any will be made, 
11 be rioting and destruction of property. 
Respectfully, 

J. J. Allen, 

Mgr., Princess Theater. 



Will O. BarKer on Moving Pictures 

Previous to his return to England, Will G. Barker wrote the 
editor: "Sorry, old man, to leave you without giving you some 
matter for the Moving Picture World, but, as an old commercial, 
jou know how I have been rushed. Get the Show World and 
copy my ideas for your readers." 

With the above we went to Warren A. Patrick and obtained 

is consent Jto the reproduction of the article from the Show 

"orld. 

* * * 

The recent convention of the leading moving picture manufac- 
turers, importers and film renters of the United States marks a 
aiew era in the progress of the moving picture industry in this 
tountry. Conspicuous among the guests of the convention was 
Will G. Barker, head of the Warwick Trading Company, Ltd., 
'of London, and one of the foremost exponents of cinematography 
Sn the world. 

j Mr. Barker came to Chicago with the Chicago delegation as 
lihe guest of George Kleine, of the Kleine Optical Company, and 
fprior to his return to London on Wednesday submitted to an ex- 
clusive interview with The Show World upon the subject of 
cinematography which will be of deep interest to all connected 
with the moving picture industry. 

Mr. Barker is an undisputed authority upon the subjects re- 
ferred to by him, and in the appended interview his remarks 
upon the trend of the business in this country and its uptight are 
most timely. 

OBJECT OF VISIT TO THIS COUNTRY. 

"Mr. Barker, what is the primary object of your visit to the 
United States?" was asked. 

"The object of my visit to the United States of America and 
Canada," he replied, "was to see for myself the possibilities of 
the cinematograph trade in . the two countries. I landed in New 
York; from there I went to Buffalo; thence across to Toronto, 
Montreal, Ottawa and Quebec. I then doubled back to Toronto 
and went to Winnipeg, and from Winnipeg to Saskatoon and 
Regina.'and thence to Edmonton. Between Saskatoon and Ed- 
monton I touched villages where four years ago there was 
neither rail nor village, and where to-day there are thousands 
of people. I went to Vancouver, thence to San Francisco and 
back to Vancouver by steamer. I then returned to Winnipeg, 
and from there to Port Arthur, where I went up into the lumber 
camps, amongst the lumber jacks, and also around Winnipeg, 
with a view of securing some pictures showing the vastness of 
I American farming. 

"I came down to Chicago, and here I find the moving picture 
theater at its very highest. I am given to understand there are 
about two hundred such places of entertainment in Chicago, and 
I do not know of any other city in the world that can boast of 
so many." 

CRITICISES USE OF OLD FILMS. 

you any criticism to make of moving pictures in Chi- 
ago?'" 

A fault which I have to find in Chicago and practically 
throughout Canada and the United States is that the films seem 
to be used when their useful life is finished. The projecting ma- 
chine of to-day has been made as perfect as human ingenuity 
on. make a machine, and. it is — I think I may say absolutely — do- 
ing no injury whatsoever to films. The .injury to the films comes 
! through the continuous windincr and "rewinding when passing 
through a machine at the rate of a foot a second, and forming 
I static electricity. This static electricity attracts all the particles 
j of dust which are floating in the air, and if you take a' large, 
: powerful reading glass, or magnifying glass, and look at the 
> film as it is passing through a machine, in a strong ray of light, 
I you will see all the particles of dust jumping on to the film.;. As 

I soon as the film is run through, that attractive power evaporates 
°ut of the celluloid, and leaves the dust and dirt free. In 
pulling the film up tight on the reel that dust scratches, hence 
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INSPECTS MOVING PICTURE THEATERS". 

"Have you ever made a personal inspection of the various 
moving picture theaters in the country?" 

"'Yes, I have. And here I might say that I have never gone 
into any show in the whole of Canada or the United States and 
revealed my identity until after the show. I paid my nickel or 
ten cents at the door and walked in as an ordinary sight-seer. 
I wanted to see for myself exactly the way in which they are 
conducted. 

"On taking my seat in a certain motion picture theater — a big 
one, in the heart of Chicago — I found in the next seats to me 
a woman with her little girl. The picture on the screen was very 
good comedy, an American production picture— really good com- 
edy. But right in the midst of one of the most comical scenes, 
which, by the way, was the interior of a room, the little girl 
passed the following remark to her mama : 'What a pity it was ■ - 
raining all the time, mama!' 

''This expression is more significant than we would think it 
on the surface, and means a lot. We have a phrase in England 
'That there are only two people who tell the truth, viz. : children 
and dmnken men.' And if a high comedy picture should lose all 
its comedy in the mind of a child, and the child's real attention 
is drawn to the 'rain' which is running down the screen, there 
must be something radically wrong in the way in which a picture 
show is ran on tne American continent. 

"The knock-about comedy naturally is the first thing that a ' 
child is pleased with, enjoys, and is carried away with. A child 
hardly sees petty details, and if in the mind of the child the 
rain is the most attractive thing in the picture, what about the 
grown-up person, and the educated man and woman?" 
TOO MUCH SUCCESSIVE COMEDY. 

'"Did you observe any other direction in which you might sug- 
gest room for improvement?" 

"Well, one point which I noticed was the succession of comedy 
subjects following comedy. The merest tyro in vaudeville man- 
agement knows that he dare not put three comedians following'" 
one another. It is asking of human nature a little too much 
to sit laughing all the time. A vaudeville manager puts on a 
comedy, a dumb show turn, then a pathetic creation, then again 
a comedy, by which means the second comedy man gets a better 
laugh as a setrOff against the pathetic previous number on the bill. 

"To further illustrate what I mean, if Uncle Tom's Cabin or 
East Lynne were shown from start to finish without a comedy 
relief, it would indeed be a very dull show. That very comedy 
relief draws the tears more copiously from, the eyes of the audi- 
ence when you come to the pathetic scene, and 50 in the inverse, 
the pathetic sets off the comedy. The more serious the educa- 
tional and scenic the better the comedy picture goes. Life is 
made up of contrasts. If we had all business throughout our life, 
and no play, Jack would indeed be a dull boy, and, on the other 
hand, if we went about our business all day long in a hilarious 
spirit I am afraid business would soon fall down. We must be 
serious sometimes. 

"Don't think for a moment that I am attempting through the 
medium of The Shaw World to even convey the impression that 
I am seeking to dictate to the exhibitor in the great American 
continent: but I would point out to the great exhibitor that to- 
day, from all I can learn, he has been steadily hedged in with 
rules and regulations by municipal authorities which sayor some- 
what of irksomeness, to use no stronger expression. I would 
venture to suggest that if he would make his show to savor just 
a little of the educational as well as the amusing, he would have 
a magnificent answer to any criticism which was passed upon his 
show. The public will not stand for Ore moment paying to go 
into a show to be educated, if you tell them that they are to 
be educated. But they .will pay to go into a show to be interested 
and amused, and yet educated without their knowing that they 
are being educated. Call your show an educational medium, and 
I am afraid you will play to empty seats. Call youryplace an 
amusement, but put on some educational subjects,- and you will 
have success, and the general uplift will be given to the people 
as' well as to the tone of your own show." 

HINTS TO EXHIBITORS. 

"Do you know of any improvement which might be made by 
the present exhibitors, without changing their present films, ma 
chines and light?" 

"I can say, without hesitation, that every exhibitor can im- 
prove his show by blacking out all the white on his screen ex- 
cept that which is absolutely required for the showing of his 
picture. I find this is a rarity. Take five cents' worth of drop 
black and mix it with a little water and size. Then with a brush 
go around the screen and black in the whole portion which is 
not used for the picture, and you will find that the brilliancy and 
luster of the picture will be very much enhanced." 

"Another point which struck me on my visits to these 
■various exhibitions is the lack of care taken by the operator 



in keeping the mask of his machine scrupulously clean. Look 
at the .first picture you see and you will find ragged edges top 
and bottom of the picture. This is nothing more nor less than 
sheer neglect on the part of the operator. At the end of each 
reel, if he will only put his finger in the mask and rub off any 
little bits of grit, or dirt, which have accumulated there, the 
picture will appear set in a good, hard, firm line frame. 

'These little details may seem very small to the ordinary ex- 
hibitor, but once let him attend to them, or get his operator to 
attend to them, and he will see that he improves his show all 
along the line. We must always remember in all the interests 
of this business, viz. : the manufacturer, the importer, the renter 
and the exhibitor, that we are all dependent on the good graces 
of the great public whom we serve for our living, and must do 
all that we possibly can to make our show as perfect as it can 
be presented. Once let the public find grave faults with our 
shows, and we shall all have to go back to the respective pur- 
suits from which we came out of, which may be a little difficult 
to find room in. Hence,- it behooves us to do all that we pos- 
sibly can, not only to please ourselves, but to please the great 
public whom we serve. 

APPROVES CHICAGO AUDIENCES: 

"How does the general conduct of the audiences in Chicago 
compare with that elsewhere*" 

"The conduct within the show, and the demeanor of the audi- 
ences compares very favorably with anything that I have seen in 
any part of the world, and I say in this connection* that I have 
personally visited moving picture exhibitions in Mexico, in sev- 
eral places in South America, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, 
China, India, Italy, Spain, Greece, Germany, France, Switzer- 
land, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, and naturally, of 
course, in my own country,- the British Isles. In fact, the little 
strip of celluloid has taken me to almost every portion of the 
globe." 

"What is the difference in the form of entertainment provided 
the American public with, for instance, London, in the character 
of the pictures ?" 

"In England we try to make them. an animated newspaper, 
and show the stay-at-home Englishman the wonders of the world. 
We are endeavoring to make cinematography take its proper 
place jn the world, namely, to convey truthfully, without any 
garnishing, the true state of things and manners and customs, 
etc. 

KING EDWARD IN MOVING PICTURES. 

"As an illustration of what I mean : King Edward visited a 
place in Westminster called the Horticultural Hall, in connec- 
tion with a South African exhibition. After declaring the ex- 
hibtion open he called Peter Ban forward and thereupon knighted 
him. Accompanied by another operator, I was stationed up in 
the gallery, and cinematographed the whole of the proceedings. 
His Majesty then came down off the platform and walked around 
the exhibition. In the meantime my operator had got into an 
automobile outside and flown off to the dark rooms. Develop- 
ment was at once proceeded with, and almost simultaneously with 
a return of the King to Buckingham Palace, we were showing 
to the public at the Palace Theater that afternoon the whole 
event on the screen. This was within two hours and twenty 
minutes of the happening. 

"Another instance : One of our battleships, H. M. S. Montagu, 
went onto the Shutter Rocks, off the west coast of England. 
We got the information on the ticker in bur office, and immedi- 
ately sent an operator to the scene. The sea was running very 
high indeed, but he chartered a tug and went off to the scene 
of the wreck. That same afternoon he returned to London, 
having traveled a matter of about 600 miles, and in the evening 
the wreck of the Montagu was being shown on the screen in 
London. _ ■ . 

"The American exhibitor has yet to realize the drawing power 
of such a picture. It will induce a person to put down his money 
to see that incident, which is the topic. of the moment There- 
fore, the topical picture deserves serious thought. \ 
(To Be Continued) ( 

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Film Review. 



This week's issue of the Biograph is 
-Mr. Gay and Mrs." 

"Love one another" is a maxim worthy 
of consentaneousness— at any rate the 
blithesome Mr. Gay thought so. To love 
and be loved was to 'him Nirvana; but, as 
Jerrold says, "love is like the measles — all 
the worse when it comes late in life" — 
hence the gay Gay's cardiacal throbs get 
him into lots of trouble, as they often make 
him forgetful of Lady Gay, who, besides 
being strong-minded, is pretty strong- 
armed as well. 

In the opening of the story we find Mr. 
Gay at breakfast, served with coffee and 
rolls from the fair hands of a pretty petite 
French maid, whose cherry lips like rose 
leaves seem tacitly inviting and he pro- 
ceeds to accept the invitation, when Mrs. 
Gay appears. "The venom clamours of a 
jealous- woman poison more deadly than a 
mad doc's tooth," and a fury of furies rage 
as Gay escapes and the maid is discharged. 
At the office, as his typewriter, is a veri- 
table Andromeda, whose radiant beauty 
makes him her sycophantic Perseus, and 
often while her lithe digits are galloping 
swiftly over the ivories of the keyboard he 
cannot resist seizing them, and the trend of 



his dictation becomes a mellifluous flood of 
"silly nothings." It was during one of these 
effervescent ebullitions that Milady Gay en- 
ters the office. Convulsed with rage, she 
goes for the indecorous couple, throwing 
Gay into his chair; and driving out the 
pretty typist, hurling her cloak and hat, 
with execrations, after her. Poor Gay. 
Explanations and excuses are futile.. The 
Mrs. will engage the next typewriter, and 
at ontfe goes in quest of one to her own 
fancy. Gay takes advantage of her ab- 
sence to meet the evicted charmer and to- 
gether they go to a lobster palace to soothe 
their ruffled nerves with a cold bottle and 
a hot bird. But junelusive wifey is on their 
trail, and he has barely time to get under 
the table when she rushes in. His hiding 
place is discovered, and sardonically brand- 
ishing a huge china plaster, she brings it 
down upon the shell of his cerebrum with a 
jolt that loosens his teeth and raises an ex- 
.crescence the size of an egg. Meanwhile 
the cause o fthe trouble has flown, and Gay 
is lead crestfallen back to the office, where 
the new typewriter awaits him. Merciful 
heaven! What a sight — Hecate, the witch, 
is a nymph of loveliness compared to her. 
A fact that is an affliction and a figure 
like a Chinese idol. Installing her in the 
position, Mrs. Gay. with an air of satis- 
faction departs. Gay makes an effort to 



tolerate her presence, but it is simply im- 
possible, so dispatching his office boy to the 
costumer's to procure the ugliest mask in 
his stock, he persuades the new amanu- 
enses with a generous bribe of bank notes 
to go— go and never return. The modern 
feminine Eumenides, quite overcome by 
this magnanimous munificence, accepts the 
money and is off. The boy arrives with the 
mask, and a message is sent for the charm- 
er, who returns and dons the mask during 
wifey's calls, which scheme works like a 
charm. 

Mr. Gay next visits his favorite manicure 
shop, and while the pretty manicurist is 
polishing his nails, persists in playing the 
game of "holding hands." His advances 
are mildly repulsed by the maid, and dur- 
ing this little pleasantry Mrs. Gay enters 
and at once recognizing the voice of her 
hubby, climbs upon a chair to peer over 
the top of the screen that separates them. 
The sight she beholds throws her into a 
frenzy of passion, which causes her to fall 
from her perch, entangled in the screen 
and chairs, » fighting, fuming, struggling, 
screaming termagant from whom the 
vrembling Gay and poor manicure girls 
cower in abject terror. 

Upon his return home in the evening, he 
is just in time to see a gentleman, with 
the courtly bearing of an Italian nobleman, 



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has purchased the interest of his former partner and the business which has 
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effusively received by Mrs. Gay and in- 
vited to her boudoir. Gay's erring soul is 
torn with jealousy, and seizing a revolver 
resolves self-destruction, but his courage 
fails him, and upon sober second thoughts, 
decides to put his apparent rival out of ex- 
istence. So following on to his wife's ap- 
partment he finds, much to his chagrin as 
well as relief, that the imagined Barbarello 
is but an Italian barber, who has come to 
dress his wife's hair. Sheepishly he retires 
from the house and an attack of acute dip- 
sosis' seizes him. He arrives home in a 
potulent, boozy condition to find Mrs. Gay, 
though in bed, is awake to fling at him a 
most loquacious tirade. Nothing can stop 
her nerve-racking harangue, until a bright 
idea strikes the bibulous Gay, and he shuts 
her up in the folding bed, effectually draw- 
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at the same time dropping the curtain on a 
film story, that for bright, telling .comedy 
situations has never up to date been ex- 
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were chosen with special care from among 
the best known artists of«the professional 
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a new film, "A Little Girl Who Did Not 
Believe in Santa Claus." 

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little boy, with his governess, finds a poor 
little ragged girl crying in the snow. He 
stops to comfort her, much against the 
wishes of his governess. The poor little 
girl is almost freezing^ The rich little boy 
gives her his warm fur overcoat and in- 
sists on taking her home with him. 

They arrive at the rich little boy's house 
— the play room. They talk of Santa 
Claus. The poor little girl does riot be- 
lieve in Santa Claus. "He never brought 
me anything." The little . girl starts for 
home. The boy gives her a warm coat and 
some candy. 

The night before Christmas. — The rich 
boy's home. — The stockings are hung. — One 
little boy sleeps in a bed of down while one 
little girl sleeps on a couch of straw. 

Midnight The rich boy dreams of the 
poor little girl. He wakes up. He has an 
idea. Down-stairs he creeps with lasso and 
revolver. He is going to capture Santa 
Claus. Old Santa arrives with his bag of 
toys. The magic Christmas tree. The lit- 
tle boy holds up Santa and makes him 
empty his bag. Then off they go together 
up the chimney arid away. 

The exterior of the poor little girl's 
home. Santa and his sleigh of toys arrive 
with the rich little boy, but poor Santa is 
too big for the chimney. The little boy ties 
Santa to the gate post and climbs down 
the chimney himself and lets Santa Claus 
in at the door. The poor little girl sleeps 
on while Santa and the little boy fill the 
room with toys and then away they go 
back home again, having done a good 
night's' work. 

The poor little girl wakes up. Her joy 
at finding all the beautiful toys and things. 
Never attain will she doubt that there is a 
Sarta Claus. 

Good Old Sarta puts the little tired boy 
back in his bed and away he goes off en 
his rounds to the homes of other little 
boys and girl. 

The newest production of Lubin is "The 
Pay-Train Robbery." 

Scene 1 — Father and Son Leaving for 
Business: The president and his son go 
to the office. 



Scene 2 — Betraying His Father's Confi 
dence: While the father is busy, the soi 
steals to gamble. 

Scene 3 — Lost Again: With the ill got 
ten money he goes to a race track. H, 
bets and loses again. 

Scene 4 — Plannipg the Robbery: Fear 
ing exposure and not knowing how to re- 
place the stolen money, he decides to hoiij 
up the Pay-Train. 

Scene 5— Delivering the Money to H 
Paymaster: When the money is delivers^ 
to the Paymaster the son follows bim wjri 
companions to whom he entrusted hj{ 
scheme. 

Scene 6 — Disguised as Workmen: ThE 
four Gentlemen Robbers disguise there' 
selves as workmen. They walk the trai 
r.ntli they come to the place which thi 
have selected for the Pay-Train Robbery. 

Scene 7 — Preparing the Tram Robbery: 
The robbers cut the rails, lay a wood/ 
plank across the rails, and thus bring 
train to wreckage. 

Scene 8" — Wiring the Disaster: 
Train-Master is seen wiring the disaste| 
to the station. 

Scene 9 — Rover Flags the Superinten 
ent's Train : The telegraph line being cut 
the flagman sends his dog to flag the trai; 

Scene 10 — Captured : Luckily nobody he, 
been hurt. The robbers are captured, isk 
brought before the president of the rasi 
The old man is nearly overcome with _ 
when he finds one of the robbers to be 
son. 



"Waters of Life" is a production of 1 
Gaumont 

The first series of views shows a beaff 
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advances to her which are spurned, whenl 
upon her Knight Errant comes fonragj 
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moans his fate and goes into the woods j 
seek solace. 

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tion she discloses to him that she pos- 
sesses the secret of youth. To prove her 
powers she swings her magic wand, caus- 
ing a scene to become visible showing two 
old and bewhiskered men standing at the 
brink of a pond. Stooping, they partake 
of the water and are immediately trans- 
formed into two handsome and sprightly 
young men. This scene fades away as sud- 
denly as it appeared. The old man is 
charmed with the vision, whereupon she 
hands him her wand and disappears in 
smoke. 

The next series of views show the old 
man wearily returning home, an old and 
imposing medieval castle where he is re- 
ceived with deference and cordiality by 
his children and. servants. He confides to 
them his determination to seek the waters 
of life and starts off on his pilgrimage, es- 
corted by his kinsfolk and servants. Wind- 
ing through^ the -castle the tottering old 
man and his fond relatives reach the 
church where he offers prayers, blesses his 
children and distributes the heirloom. He 
resumes his weary tramp through beauti- 
ful courts, rustic lanes and bridges, at the 
end of which he bids his last farewell and 
enters the woods alone. Tired and dis- 
couraged, he is surrounded by several 
dancing, girls who assist him to a resting 
posture andpthen disappear in" smoke. Aris- 
ing, he finds himself before an insurmount- 
able wall which, touching with his staff, 
opens up and discloses daintily clad maid- 
ens, each one assisting him and immediate- 
ly turning into smoke. Reaching the top 
of the rock one of the damsels attaches a 
pair of wings to his rod, with the aid of 
which he flies through the air and lands at 
the brink of the magic pool of water, from 
which he -sees a horseman on a fiery steed 
spring up and as suddenly turn into a wind- 
mill. . . 

Partaking of the water, he is instantly 
transformed into a young and sprightly 
man and immediately sets off for the 
church where he first met his affinity. 
There he arrives just as the wedding pro- 
cession is leaving the church, too late. 
Again he is disappointed and rambling off 
aimlessly meets his servants by whom he 
is nqt recognized. Then later meeting his 
children he attempts to embrace them, for 
which act he is turned away as an intruder. 
Becoming disgusted at the treatment he re- 
ceives in his changed form, he resolves to 
try to be transformed to himself again. 
Going into the woods he again meets the 
witch, to whom he makes his wishes known. 
She with a swing of her magic wand 
changes him to the decrepit, stooping ana 
bewhiskered man of old and herself disap- 
pears into smoke.- 

The last scene shows the old man trudg- 
ing home. He is sighted by the lookout at 
his home, who notifies the anxious child- 
Ten of the return of their lost father, 
whereupon they all turn out to welcome 
their prodigal and respected father, lov- 
ingly embracing^ him and escort him back 
to his old domicile, happy and a wiser man. 

Another Gaumont is "Father Buys a 
Hand Roller." 

Passing along a busy thoroughfare the 
old gentleman beholds a hand roller on sale 
and as he has been in want of such a con- 
trivance it requires little effort on the part 
of the salesman to close the transaction. 
But now how is it to be brought to its 
field of usefulness? the purchaser is in a 
quandary. Coming down the street are 
two of nature's less favored sons and these 
our friend accosts and soon induces to 
agree- to deliver to his premises the roller. 
Giving the necessary directions as to the 



place of delivery he turns over to them his 
purchase and departs. The unwieldly ap- 
pliance causes .some considerable annoyanct 
and their strength and patience 'is soon 
worn out so that the first opportunity to 
indulge in. liquid refreshment is immediate- 
ly taken advantage of, but while thus ac- 
quiring a new supply of vigor a cyclist is 
unfortunate enough to collide with the rol- 
ler and totally demolish his bicycle. This 
soon draws a crowd and after the excite- 
ment subsides we see our new friends 
trudging along the street with their hand 
roller in tow. Many somewhat similar ex- 
periences are encountered along the route, 
all of which are ludicrous in the extreme 
to the observers, but which for the time 
being cause moments of deepest anxiety to 
our friends. In due time the destination is 
reached and the spirits of. our friends are 
high at the thought of the reward that 
awaits them at the conclusion of their 
wearisome and difficult task. However, 
they are doomed to disappointment, as the 
gateway through which they are obliged to 
pass with the roller is too narrow and as 
the weight of the roller prohibits their lift- 
ing it over the entrance they see no other 
way than to force one of the brick pillars. 
They pull the roller to the entrance, but 
the force of the impact totally demolishes 
the pillar and a portion of the fence. Un- 
dismayed they tow their burden through 
the grounds, but before they can realize it 
they have collided with a pedestal and cast 
of a sculptor which is destroyed. The 
sculptor, after a moment of absence, re- 
turns and views with dismay the wreck 
before him, seeks the owner and together 
they go in pursuit of the guilty culprits. 
They are soon joined by an irate horticul- 
turist, whose domain has been trespassed 
with a vengeance. The final scene is a 
climax to the trying experiences of our 
friends, who, trying t6 pass over the struc- 
ture fording a mire on the premises, are 
precipitated with the ill-fated hand roller 
into the depths of the mire, from • which 
they with difficulty extricate themselves. 
They now seek their would-be benefactor 
empty-handed — this individual coming up- 
on them about the same time is without 
ceremony thrown into the mire and our 
friends now make their escape. All hands 
lend aid to rescue the old man and the 
roller as welL The roller, however, is now 
again for sale at the home of its recent 
purchaser. 

This week Pathe introduces: 

"Madam's Fancies." An indulgent hus- 
band takes his wife out because she is in 
bad humor, and resolves to be very good to 
her. She suddenly takes a fancy to a beau- 
tiful, expensive feather boa, and she takes 
possession while he pays for it, and when 
she takes him to a milliner he not only pays, 
but carries the boxes. At a florist's she 
adds a potted plant Jo his burden, and later 
a globe jar of live little fish. A dog is next, 
and so she goes on, hangjng up her pur- 
chases on every available inch of space on 
her husband's person. When he is almost 
through he looks like a human van, but his 
wife fits a lamp shade over his hat, and 
caps the whole business by seating herself 
on a donkey to ride home on, while, the 
overloaded husband walks behind. The 
entire cargo travels well, until, on reach- 
ing the house, he trips, and the whole load 
goes down in fragments. * .• 

"The Daily Life of a French Sailor." 
The first view is that of the entire French 
sea-dog, Joan of Arc The first idea of 
the tarsf work is given as they tumble out 
of their hammocks, and deposit them in the 



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locker. Very quickly they wash, several 
gathering around a tub at once, and then 
the decks are mopped. After their wet 
clothes are hung on' a line, the men go to 
exercise,- running, work on the horizontal 
bar, foot calisthenics and handbalancing by 
some. Then they line up for mess, and 
after receiving their rations settle about in 
groups. This done with they, demonstrate 
i.the manner of loading 'guns" of all sizes, 
the entire process being gone through up 
to. the depositing of the huge' shells. The 
next view is that of a sixteen-oared boat 
manned by a crew of tars, tearing away 
from the ship, and then cutting the water 
on a trip back again. The men are next 
seen lined up on the forward deck in their 
regulation togs ; several officers pass be- 
tween the straight lines and inspect the 
jackies, after which they march away. The 
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enters with a grip. - But while the bride 
embraces her dear uncle, the groom seeks 
a means of escape,, for the -newcomer is 
none other than his former landlord. In a 
twinkling the old man recognizes him, and 
there is a grand melee. But the last pic-, 
ture shows him giving his blessing to the 
young couple, the groom begging many par- 
dons. 



"On the Grass." A young man and his 
sweetheart are seated on the grass, ap- 
parently on a little outing. They take a 
handkerchief as a shield and are about to 
kiss when the kerchief is knocked from be- 
tween them by the saber of a stout gen- 
darme who had been an unseen witness. He 
immediately orders the young man be off 
and takes charge of the girl. He seems 
to be rather attracted by her grace and 
charm, and removing his cumbersome sash, 
hat and saber, begins to make love to her. 
The girl objects violently, but afterward 
decides to humor him. Soon the ill- 
matched couple are sitting on the grass, 
spooning. Meanwhile the girl's companion 
happens along, appropriates the gendarme's 
divested regalia, and just as his sweetheart 
is about to be kissed beneath the handker- 
chief he brings the sword down on it. The 
gendarme rises, beholds the sash, hat, etc., 
and promptly flees in alarm, leaving the 
couple to their emhraces. 



"An Uncle by Marriage." A boarding- 
house keeper is dozing in his hammock, 
when a mischievous young man, a boarder, 
cuts the rope and upsets him. He prom- 
ises to even matters, but fails to do so. 
When he is next seated under a window 
with a young lady the boarder drops a fish • 
ing line and lifts* his wig off. Not content, 
the boarder leads him a merry chase for 
the wig. Several people join the old man 
and when hfc almost catches the fellow he 
is repulsed by a stream from a hose. The 
young man with the wig next jumps into 
a boat, and the pursuer, in attempting to 
follow is upset into the water. Again, after 
this, he falls off a bridge. Bald-headed 
and disgusted he is fished out; filled with 
anger, he writes out an offer of $i,ooo re- 
ward for the capture, dead or alive, of the 
mischievous boarder. 

The next scene is laid six months later. 
The young man is marrying. He signs the 
contract, and all are ready to go to church. 
A messenger enters, and hands a note from 
the bride's' rich uncle reading that he is on 
his way- and will be present at the mar- 
riage of his dear niece. Everybody is 
pleased, and they are now gathered iij 
church, when the door opens and a man 



"Manners arid Customs of Australia." 
The first view of this film shows the 
Hawkesberry River and the steel bridge 
spanning it. This is followed by a view on 
the busy Rue a Melbourne, after which 
several types of uncivilized Australians are 
shown, one of them being pictured throw- 
ing the boomerang. Now is seen a large 
ostrich farm, a big herd of the fine birds 
being in view." The manner of plucking 
the plumes out of the tails is demonstrated, 
a powerful bird being cornered against *&J 
fence for this purpose. He puts up a ter- 
rific struggle, and the men are forced to 
drop a black hood over his head to get the 
feathers, which are ,now shown. The next 
scene is the killing of scores of rabb'ts. 
which infest and destroy the Australian 
crops. Dogs and huge cl'ibs wielded by 
boys figure here. The last pictures show 
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Usually at the year's end, business men take their books 
in hand and look back through the year, for faults and 
failings, keeping a keen eye on the debit and credit sides 
of the ledger, and until an even balance is struck many 
anxious moments arise. If the balance is on the right 
side of the ledger all is well, and keen satisfaction 
abounds. On March 9 this year we launched the Moving 
Picture World in the interests of the animated picture 
and allied trades. We knew there was need for an inde- 
pendent and free weekly such as ours, a journal open 
to every section of the trade — manufacturers, renters, 
nickelodeon proprietors and operators alike. A paper 
free from the influence of any firm or firms in the trade, 
as far as their owning any stock or lot in it ; a paper free 
to map out- its own policy without fear or favor, and 
with the knowledge that there was no big stick hanging 
over our heads if we tro<L6n the pet/corns of an employer. 
Facing numerous difficulties and secret enemies, we came 
forth and found friends from the outset; many hi the 
trade gave us their unqualified approval and support. 
Others looked on, told us we had to fight against long 
odds, gave us the best of good wishes, patting us on the 
back, telling us at the same time to keep up our courage 
and go in and win if we could, but — well, they did not 
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tion of proving them mistaken in their prognostications. 
That we have filled a long felt want has been proved by 
advertisers and readers alike. To them and our numer- 
ous friends we tender our thanks for the support they 
have given us during the year now closing. Looking 
through the editorial we wrote in our first issue, we feel 
we have carried out the pledges made therein, and dur- 
ing the coming year we can promise still better fare, so 
that our readers will look forward still more eagerly for 
each issue than they have done during the past year. 



Sunday Opening of Nickelodeons. 

We were under the impression that with the passing 
of the Douell measure by the aldermen of New York, 
that nickelodeons could open on Sunday as did theaters, 
vaudeville houses, etc. We rubbed our eyes in amaze- 
ment when we took up our paper on Monday morning 
to find that some forty proprietors had been summoned 
for opening and that the police had forbidden others to 
open. Why this invidious distinction? Why this unjust 
persecution? Why this one-sided reading into the law 
of New York ? These are questions that puzzle us, and 
it needs the wisdom of a Solomon to unravel the tarigle.' 
If it is right for theaters, dance halls, museums and vaude- 
ville to open to the public, it is right for the nickelodeons' 
to do so. We were glad to see such a gathering of the 
clans in the large hall of Miles Bros. Tuesday morning 
to discuss the rights of the nickelodeons. The meeting 
was full of the right spirit and we feel sure that full 
justice will be done to all concerned. But it is only by 
organization that full victory can be secured, and the 
resuscitation of the MOVING PICTURE ASSO- 
CIATION is a step forward to secure this. 

"United we stand, divided we fall," is as true to- 
day as when written thousands of years ago. In unity 
is strength, and we urge (as we always have done) the 
complete uniting of every proprietor into a strong pha- 
lanx. We feel sure that the meeting will accomplish 
much, but every one must join ; this is no time for petty 
jealousies or strife. The victories won by Florence J. 
Sullivan in the past are an augury of what he can do for 
the association in the future, and there must he no tying 
of his hands, or thwarting of interests. The proprietors* 
fully realized the position in which they stand, as was 
shown by the more than eager effort to enroll into mem- 
bership, resulting in the sum of $795.00 being handed to , 
the treasurer. More is wanted — much more — and the 
promises made indicate that it will be forthcoming. There 
must be no dividing of ranks, which is suicidal, every 
man must know what he wants and be prepared to sup- 
port the leaders through thick and thin, then victory 'is 
assured. 



Chicago Conference. 

In reply to several correspondents asking for particu- 
lars of this conference, we beg to state there are none. 
The press were excluded from the meetings, and rather 
than give a garbled report from hearsay, and in the ab- 
sence of authentic information from the secretary, we 
prefer to say nothing. All that was worth reporting ap- 
peared last issue. 

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Moving Picture Association. 

A preliminary meeting of proprietors was called in the 
hall in Miles Bros.' Duilding, at which many were pres- 
ent. It was resolved that a committee of three be ap- 
pointed to arrange data, obtain counsel's opinion, and re- 
port at a meeting to be held Thursday. The committee 
consisted of Messrs. Miles, Driscoll and Seraphine. 

Thursday,* December 26, at the Murray Hill Lyceum, 
the meeting was called to order by Mr. Miles, who said : 

"The purpose of this meeting is to perfect an organiza- 
tion and to secure, first and foremost, Sunday opening 
in Greater New York; after that we hope to so consoli- 
date all exhibiting interests so that we will work in unity 
for the protection of the business in general and for the 
benefit of the business and in such a way that all mem- 
bers of the association will be helped. If we are to secure 
Sunday opening and work with all moving picture in- 
terests it is necessary to secure the greatest financial sup- 
port from the nickelodeons." 

Fifty-five applications were handed~ln at the meeting. 

We, Herbert L. Miles, Joseph F. Driscoll and Nicola 
Seraphine, the committee on organization of the Moving 
Picture Association, elected at a meeting held on De- 
cember 24, 1907, report as follows : 

First. That the exhibitors of moving pictures in 
Greater New York be organized in a permanent associa- 
tion, the affairs of which association shall be managed 
by an executive committee consisting of seven members, 
which committee shall select from its number a president 
and secretary and a treasurer, and which committee shall 
have full charge of the affairs of the association. 

Second. That the name of said association shall be 
Moving Picture Association. 

Third. In order to insure the selection of an executive 
committee which shall be widely representative and fully 
qualified to manage the affairs of the association, the 
organization committee recommends to this meeting that 
the following seven gentlemen be selected as the execu- 
tive committee for the period ending January 1,. 1909: 
Messrs. Nicola Seraphine, Fox, F. J. Driscoll, Brinkman, 
D. Donnegan and J. Valenci. 

Fourth. That any person engaged in the business of 
exhibiting moving pictures shall be entitled to full mem- 
bership in the association upon the payment by him of the 
initiation fee of twenty-five ($25.00) dollars for each 
place of business conducted by him in accordance with 
the resolution adopted at the meeting held on December 
24, 1907. 

Fifth. That the executive committee be selected at 
once and be directed to report immediately to this meet- 
ing a plan of action to be adopted by this association as 
its policy in regard Jto the question of Sunday opening. 

An adjparamentldf an hour was taken, after which 
the executive committee reported to the meeting as fol- 
lows: 

First. That after examining the information blanks 
which have been filled out by those present at the meet- 
ing the committee finds fifty-five men are present, repre- 
senting in all seventy licensed moving picture places. 

Second. That all have signed the applications for 
membership, pursuant to the recommendation of the com- 
mittee on organization. 

Third. . Your committee has consulted with the or- 
ganization committee and had from that committee a very 
-full report on the question of Sunday opening, and fur- 
ther, your committee has consulted with counsel in re- 
spect to the status of the moving picture business in 
Greater New York as affected by the ordinance of the 



Board of Aldermen amending the Charter of the City of 
New York, and the provisions of the Penal Code, to- 
gether with the opinion of the Corporation Counsel and 
the various decisions of the courts construing these laws. 
We are of the opinion that the appellate courts will sus- 
tain the contention that the moving picture business can 
be conducted on Sunday. Your committee therefore rec- 
ommends that proper tests be made in the criminal courts 
for the purpose of establishing this right. 

Your committee further reports that it is inadvisable 
co test this question by means of injunctions, because such 
relief is only of a temporary nature and will last for only 
one Sunday and there is no appeal from an unfavorable 
decision. • • — 1 

We find, therefore, that the only practical way is to 
start the test in the police court and take it to the Supreme 
Court on habeas corpus proceedings. 

We believe that at the. present state of affairs in New 
York City the persons in charge of every moving picture 
place that opens on Sunday will be arrested, and we 
therefore advise that a proper test or tests be made as 
your counsel may direct. 

In closing Mr. Miles stated that this association would 
take the place of the other two associations, from which 
the two presidents, Messrs Seraphine and Fox, were rep- 
resented on the executive, and that both were working 
for the best interests of >the movement in perfect unison. 



Willi G. Bashes' ©sa ££©^ingf Paet*BE?es 
Continued Jrom page 689. 

"In broaching this sphere of moving pictures to several of 
the biggest concerns in the amusement business of America, I 
have been met with the- reply that all the happenings are in Eu- 
rope, and very few in America. This is indeed news, and very 
Strange to me. Wc in Europe always have envied the newspaper 
man of America for the ■wonderful and marvelous happenings 
which you get on this vast continent I ask any one in the 
moving picture business to pick up the first newspaper, either 
morning or evening, which he can lay his haqd to, and see 
whether there is not a fond — I might say almost inexhaustible— 
of subjects ready and waiting to be depicted in moving picture 
photography. 

"Incidents, such as your President going down the Mississippi 
River with that wonderful flotilla of steamers, accompanied by 
a_ coterie of the most prominent Statesmen and business men 
giving an added importance to the value of the picture, would 
indeed have made a very, fine and attractive series of. pictures, 
with that educational influence which . I am trying to impress 
upon your public. Furthermore, you have the value of such a 
picture as an undying record of a great historical happening, and 
when the Panama Canal has been opened and the great water- 
way route shall be traversed by the ships of the world, with 

what pride WOUld posterity lOOk Upon that living picture of the 
really first great step toward the realization of that great 
American dream which has become an established certainty- 
Such a picture would no doubt fill a most important niche in 
the archives of the world's history. y 

"In passing, I might say that already the French Government 
is forming a. library of film subjects which are to tell the his- 
tory of the country in moving pictures. I am also given to un- 
derstand that your own government here is procuring such a 
set to show the advancement of the 1 navy. 

MIGHT PHOTOGRAPH BALL GAMES. 

"I find your public is mad, as is our own, on football. (W e 
have no baseball in the Summer time, although we are trying 
hard to leam the game.) Your Jbaseball and your football 
crowds are a big factor to rememBer, and you have an enor- 
mous clientele to draw upon if you would but show an ani- 
mated record Of the games that take place away from, home- 
Recently you had the post-season games for the championship 
of the world, and I understand that thousands were turned awayi 
and that many paid as high as $10 for a seat Surely, if they 
would pay such large amounts to see the game, the ones who 
were turned away would at least pay a nickel or ten cents to 
see a reproduction of those memorable battles on the diamond 
that makes baseball history. 



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"Another thought occurs to me. How many people are there 
in Chicago who have never been out of Chicago? This' applies 
to all other cities also. The thinking man is fond of reading 
of the wonders of the world. As an instance, to make the thing 
as local as possible, how many of the thinking men who are 
not blessed with the dollars to get there, have visited your won- 
derful National park — Yellowstone Park? Wonder upon won- 
ders meet the eye as one goes through that magnificent place. In 
such subjects I feel there is a vast field for the exhibitor to get 
a good, steady, thinking, better class man into his show. 

"Once the exhibitor shows his interest and his need for such 
subjects, he will find that the film manufacturers of the world 
are ready and waiting to supply his wants. 

"What can be more interesting to a man living in the heart 
of such a vast continent as America than to see how salt water 
fish are caught? The majority can only read about it. It is 
not given to every man to have the means, to travel to his 
heart's content, but by means of such pictures of industries you 
enable him to enjoy all the beauties of travel without the 
cost, trouble, or inconvenience. * 

"To come right down to something which Chicago has a di- 
rect interest in, that is, the wonderful, fearless attempt of Wal- 
ter Weliman to plant the American flag on the North Pole. Here 
is a man thousands of miles away from civilization, with just a 
few faithful followers, and with all the difficulties of handling 
one of the largest airships in the whole world. Last July a 
storm blowing at the rate of eighty miles an hour fetched down 
some of the steel work upon which they had spent two laborious 
years in setting up. Here were difficulties unheard and un- 
thought of. How entertaining to every one throughout^ the wide 
world to see the efforts of Walter Weliman and his lieutenant, 
Major Hersey, struggling against nature's forces to do some- 
thing which has never before been accomplished. It is only 
by moving pictures, and moving pictures only, that such scenes 
can be depicted and brought home to your very door, at the 
cost of a nickel, or thereabouts. 

"A moving picture man to-day accompanies all such expedi- 
tions. We have just sent out a moving picture camera to the 
South Pole. A moving picture camera has just been taken right 
through that fever infected place, the Belgian Congo. Our op- 
erator, as is already known to the world, stood in the trenches 
at Casablanca, when France was fighting the Moors on behalf 
of civilization. In that picture we see something which we can 
only read about, viz. : the new French field gun at work, which, 
by an ingenious construction, utilizes the gases formed to counter- 
act the recoil. A still photograph or drawing, or description, 
could not convey an adequate idea of the workings of this won- 
derful instrument of warfare.. 

"Do you think that the present prosperity now prevailing will 
continue?" asked The Show. World man. - 

"I have met one or two pessimistic men in the business who 
fear that the boom which we are now enjoying to-day in mov- 
ing, pictures will not last Let me tell such people that in the 
whole eleven years I have been connected with cinematography 
I have heard the same tale, that to-morrow will be. the last day 
that moving pictures will draw. But to-morrow never comes. I 
would tell the great American exhibitor that he is only on the 
verge of the enormous possibilities of the cinematograph. There 
are fields lying fallow which have never had a furrow put into 
them, so far as moving pictures are concerned. They are sim- 
ply lying there waiting for the plow to come along, and the 
man who puts the plow in and sows the seed will have a very 
rich harvest. 

"I refer to the working men's club, the Band of Hope, the 
church, the schools, political world, the big dry goods store en- 
terprises, the railways, the steamships, and various other places 
which will most readily suggest themselves ■ to a live man in 
the business so soon as he puts his thoughts in that direction. 

"So impressed am I with the possibilities of the business here 
in the States that I have determined to open a branch of my 
business in New York. Also, I am putting the interest of my 
Canadian business in the hands of Mr. George Kleine, of the 
Kleine Optical Company, whom I consider the Napoleon of the 
moving picture industry of the American continent. 

"Do not think in the views which I put before you — and I 
want you to make it quite clear to the whole of the trade — 
that it is in no dictatorial spirit that I have given you my views. 
My one and sole idea is for the uplifting of the business. I 
feel that only by uplifting our business, and it is in the hands 
of the exhibitor to do it and not in the hands of the manufac- 
turer, that we shall become as sound and as stable an industry 
as the rock of Gibraltar, and as necessary as the butcher or the 
baker. 

"The American, public are our masters in this business, as 
they are in all businesses which cater to amusement, We must 
always remember we are in a business which can be done with- 
out, and it is only by having our business on the solid founda- 



tion of clean, wholesome, interesting and educational amusement 
that we can get that solidity which we are all seeking." 

"Mr. Barker, what, in your opinion, is the general trend of the 
industry?" 

"The general trend of amusements is upward, and the moving 
picture industry must keep pace with that trend, if not set an 
example to the whole amusement world. Every individual ex- 
hibitor has it in his power to aid in this movement by seeing 
that he puts on the screen nothing he would have the least 
qualm about showing to his wife, his children, or his sweetheart, 
his sister or his mother. 

"Edison, with his wonderful invention, put it into the power 
of the human race to see with its own eyes all the glones of 
this wonderful world that we live in, just as he put into our 
hands the power of recording forever the actual voices of the 
departed great. So that really the moving picture man has a 
mission, and we must see that we do not abuse that mission. 
The moving picture should be as much a necessity of our lives 
as is the daily. newspaper, and even more. 

"Natural events, or, as we call them, actualities, -are far more 
graphically described in pictures than in cold print It is the 
trend of the educational age to-day to teach rather through the 
eye, the first sense, than through the ear. A lesson taught 
through the eye is calculated by teachers to have far more last- 
ing properties than that which is taught through the ear. And 
so we find that in the art of healing — I refer to that great body of 
men studying at the university to be physicians and surgeons — 
these are being largely, taught operations, etc., by the aid of 
the cinematograph. 

"One operation, which is brought to my mind very vividly, 
as I had the honor of turning the handle, was a case of tre- 
panning, one of the most delicate operations which a surgeon can 
perform to-day. This art is being taught in many medical col- 
leges by the aid of the 'cinematograph, in deference to the views 
of anti-vivisectionists, and it is held by some of the most learned 
professors in the world that such operations can be as correctly 
and as vividly taught by the aid of moving pictures as they can 
be by subjecting poor, harmless monkeys and dogs to such an 
ordeal." 

"What was your general impression of Pittsburg?" 

"My impression of Pittsburg, if you mean the city and not 
the convention, was that I felt instantly at home on my stepping 
from one of your palatial Pullmans. I could scarce see my hand 
for smoke and fog — in fact to use a good old London expression, 
I could cut it with a knife. This very fact made me feel In- 
stantly at home, being a Londoner, or, to use a more familiar 
phrase, orterm, a cockney. But evidently you don't mean what 
were my impressions of Pittsburg. 

"My impression of the convention was that I never saw a body 
of men get down to the real work of the moment quicker and 
with fuller understanding of their needs. That convention should 
mark a wonderful period in the history of moving pictures on 
your great continent. One thing struck me very forcibly in- 
deed, and that was that the gray beards were conspicuous by 
their absence. There was all the vivacity, go aheadiveness, smart- 4 
ness and typical Yankee impetuosity amongst the young "men 
who seem to have got hold of the moving picture business in 
the United States. This is to my mind a very fine omen for 
the future of the business. Young blood is very tenacious and 
enthusiastic, and they have this advantage, that they can grow 
up in the business as it develops. They have not the disadvan- 
tage of growing too old before the business is down on a sound 
bottom. They have youth at the helm, and with youth at the 
helm the ship of the moving picture industry should sail trough 
fair weather and rough weather seas of all times. 

"Youth in America assumes responsibilities that a man of 
fifty in Europe would not dare. In that phase of American life 
I fancy I see that which we Englishmen want to know very 
much indeed. I feel that I have unearthed the secret, or one of 
the secrets, of America's great success and prosperity, in that 
she believes in youth, whereas in Europe the son is still a child 
until the father is dead, which very often means that a man is 
looked upon • and treated as a child until he arrives at such 
an age that all his spirit of initiative has been lost. In other 
words, the spirit of initiative has not been permitted to burst 
forth in the flame of action." 

"Are you to remain in the States long enough to attend the 
coming meeting in Chicago?" 

"Unfortunately, I have already been too long away from my 
headquarters in England, and it is with deep regret that I can- 
not see the consummation of the Pittsburg meeting. For I feel 
that the Pittsburg meeting will be consummated at the adjourned 
meeting to be held in Chicago. But although separated by 
leagues of land and sea, please consider that I shall be with all 
the boys in spirit By the courtesy of The Show World you 
have allowed me to talk to the great moving picture industry of 
America, a privilege I very much appreciate. I feel I have 



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reached everybody, which months, or even years, of travel would 
never have enabled me to do." 

"We have received innumerable inquiries from interested par- 
ties as to the future supply of new subjects. What is your opin- 
ion on this point?" 

"I think the production of subjects is illimitable. I have only 
to point out one or two businesses which depend upon novelty 
to show you that the moving picture manufacturer should have 
no difficulty in supplying the demand. I refer to wall-paper 
manufacturers; the cartoonist — and here I might say that the 
cartoonist gets the bulk of his inspiration from the matter of 
the moment Again, the artist for the colored supplements of 
metropolitan newspapers, the song writers, and story writers in 
the magazines. Here are a few instances of that illimitable sup- 
ply which the human brain is capable of evolving. Then, as 
regards actualities, or natural subjects, or scenic subjects, or 
whatever you call them here, the earth has only yet been 
scratched. 

"Here is one idea which one would think very stupid of a 
picture man to risk his money and the life of his operator in 
securing. On December 26, of this year, one of our operators, 
O. I. Roseman, sets out from Hammerfest, Northern Norway, 
on absolutely untrodden ground, with Harry De Windt, the emi- 
nent explorer, and William LeQeuex, the great novelist. The 
combination is a happy one. You have the moving picture man 
to depict for the eye, the lecturer to tell the story by word of ■ 
mouth, and the novelist to paint the word pictures for pos- 
terity. 

"They are setting forth across Lapland, and will come out at 
Archangel, in Russia, given good luck, about the end of May 
next. FOR THE FIRST THREE MONTHS" THEY WALK 
IN TOTAL, ABSOLUTE DARKNESS. Of course, no pos- 
sible use could be made of the camera. Then kind Nature be- 
gins to give a little sunlight to those northern regions, and 
the camera is unpacked, the tripod and machine brought forth, 
and the camera man sets to work on that vast waste of land., 
known as Lapland. 

"The unthinking will say, but why go in the Winter time? 
Why not, when there is light? My answer to that is that it is 
impossible for man or beast to walk in the Summer time across 
Lapland. The perpetual snow is sloppy, and they would sink. 
It is only possible in the Winter time, when the snow is frozen 
hard, to give them a foothold for themselves and their reindeer 
pulling their sleighs. 

"St. Nicholas, returning from having administered to the 
joys of mankind the day after Christmas, will look upon this 
brave little band, • who are giving up their holiday pleasures, 
and for what ? For the amusement of the public and the instruc- 
tion of the world. 

"Without regard to the tremendous cost of such an expedi- 
tion, think of the hardships which a camera man has to endure^ 
Think of his boundless ambition, his courage. Money is a great 
incentive in causing these men to undergo such hardships, but 
the prevailing influence is the glorious reception accorded them 
on their return, and the craving to see the realization of their 
dream on the screen. 

"But the future supply of moving picture subjects depends 
largely upon the encouragement which those who exhibit them 
to the public give to the manufacturer. As a business proposi- 
tion Lapland sounds somewhat absurd. But if you encourage 
us manufacturers to go on with such exploitation we will go 

to the furthermost ends of the earth to meet your wants. No 
expedition is too big, too hazardous, or too costly to undertake, 
if the manufacturer feels that he has the whole of the trade at 
his back, and will duly' support him on the return of the expedi- 
tion. \ 

"While on this subject of the support which the exhibitor can 
give the manufacturer, there crosses my mind one great ban in 
the moving picture industry, and that is duplicating the product 
of a man's work, brains and money, t. 4, making spurious prints 
from an original. This is a very serious phase of the business. 
Let me put it to you in cold dollars and cents. A manufacturer 
starts an expedition off with some thousands of dollars in. their 
pocket They must have cash because checks are useless, and 
there is no credit He spends his money, the expedition returns, 
and he puts the result of that expedition on the market. . 

"It is possible" for a man devoid of all commercial morality 
to unscrupulously take one of the prints and make copies there- 
from. He floods the market with such duplicate copies, and 
thereby' robs the manufacturer of the profit which HE MUST 
HAVE TO ENABLE HIM TO MAKE THESE EXPEDI- 
TIONS POSSIBLE. 

"Apart from the robbery and the injustice to the orieinator 
of such expedition, you have, bad . photography, which will not 
do credit to your show, and hence you are offending the artistic 
taste of your audiences. 



"If every exhibitor would make a careful study and avoid, as 
he would loathsome disease, any pirated or duplicated copies, 
regardless of the monetary difference, he will find that he is 
budding up a business for the future, and not one upon the sands 
of unfair and unscrupulous business competition. 

"In this business we all depend upon one another. The pub- 
lic- depends upon the exhibitor; the exhibitor depends upon 
the film exchange man, and the film exchange man depends upon 
the manufacturer, and it is the duty of all of us to see that we 
get that which we pay for, or to use an old worn-out phrase, 
'Beware of spurious imitations.' 

"While the trend of my thoughts is in this direction, might 
I venture to suggest that there is another grievance which we 
manufacturers have against some other manufacturers? Per- 
haps I ought not to mention this, as it is rather a matter of 
manufacturer to manufacturer than of general interest to the 
renter and exhibitor, but I cannot allow this opportunity to pass 
without giving 'you, or saying to you in the strongest possible 
terms which are at my disposal, how I abhor, and what a 
miserable business proceeding it is for one manufacturer to 
re-stage another manufacturer's ideas. 

"Perhaps, after all, it does somewhat affect the renter and 
exhibitor, in so far as the exchange man has to buy, and the 
exhibitor has to put before his public very often an absolutely 
similar subject photographed scene for scene, action for action, 
in exact replica of that which he had handled a month pre- 
viously. Here again I appeal to the exhibitor and the exchange 
men to put their foot on such proceedings. Remember that once 
you take the impetus of initiative away from the manufacturer 
by ANY means, whether it be by giving bad shows or duplicat- 
ing or by re-staging, so sure will the days of the moving picture 
industry be numbered." 



WHEN "MUSIC". IS A NUISANCE. 

A peculiar phase of the nickel theater is on trial, literally 
as well as figuratively, in quiet Philadelphia. The cheap 
"shows," in addition to other objectionable features, have 
introduced "outside music" by phonographs and small bands. 
As Market Street, one of the best business thoroughfares of 
Philadelphia, is blessed with an abundance of the S-cent thea- 
ters, the result of the energetically applied innovation will 
easily be imagined. A local contemporary speaks of the 
music discoursed by the competing instruments and bands 
as "a horrid din" that reminded the traveled citizen of Cairo 
and the average man of the midways or pikes or trails of the 
world's fairs. 

Gentle suasion was first resorted to in the hope of inducing 
the owners of the picture shows to dispense with the musical 
forms of street advertising. It failed sadly. Police admoni- 
tion came next, but for some unexplained reason that, too, 
proved ineffective. Finally the business men of Market street 
applied for an injunction to restrain the employment of bands 
and instruments and the making of "outside music" for the 
purpose of attracting patronage to the cheap establishments. 

This measure raised delicate questions of law and art 
Unnecessary noise has, to be sure, been held as a nuisance, 
but is music unnecessary noise? And if the answer be that 
a lot depends on the "music," who is to determine when 
harmony passes into discord? Again, if the employment of 
barkers is lawful in advertising legitimate business, why is 
the use of bands or phonographs unlawful? 

The court, however, was equal to the difficult task. The 
injunction was granted, but the noise versus music issue was 
evaded. The opinion contained some dicta about "constant 
and. incessant playing" becoming intolerable, even maddening, 
where an occasional performance might be pleasurable, but 
these were only incidental observations. The order stopping 
the outside music was based on the fact that it had resulted, 
according to the evidence, in the blocking of the street, the 
interference with the business of adjoining stores, obstruc- 
tion of entrances and views of artistically arranged shop 
windows, and injury to trade at least as entitled to protection 
as the moving picture entertainments. 

This is hard sense rather than art criticism, but it will 
answer. — Chicago Record-Herald. 

* * * 

A moving picture theater was opened Wednesday in Middle 
street, Pittsfield, Me. The managers, Messrs. White & Totrr.an, 
claim that they have a good entertainment in the moving picture 
line together with illustrated songs. The theater is open after- 
noons and evenings. 

. * * * 

An interesting lecture on moving pictures and .how they are 
made was- delivered bv Mr. S. Lubin, at the .Franklin Institute, 
Philadelphia, last week. 



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SUNDAY TEST CASE PUT OVER; FORTY ARRESTED. 

David Robinson, manager of the Colonial Theater, who was 
one of forty theatrical men arrested for alleged violations of the 
new Sunday lav/, was arraigned in the West Side Court on 
Monday, 23d inst, but this case, practically a test of the new 
ordinance, was adjourned until Thursday morning, because of 
the absence of the Corporation Counsel. 

The Robinson case is being watched by all the other theatrical 
managers of the city, for upon its disposition depends a decision 
as to the exact character of the shows they may give on Sunday 
and stay within the provisions of the Doull ordinance. 

Robinson was served with a summons by Captain Farrel, of 
the West Sixty-eighth street station, because of a Sunday lecture, 
with moving pictures, given at the Colonial Theater. 

Magistrate Wahle was disinclined to hear the case until a 

representative of the Corporation Counsel's office was present 

He notified the Corporation Counsel to have one of his assistants 

present Thursday to give the city's view, of the meaning of the 

. new law. ■ 

Manager Robinson was served with a new summons, and other 
summonses were issued for John Floyd Humes, the lecturer, 
who gave a talk on "Panama" at the theater; Edward J. O'Neill, 
the ticket seller, and Joseph Michaels, the door man at the 
theater. , 

After the adjournment of the hearing William Grossman, 
counsel for Robinson and for most of the other theatrical men 
of the city, declared that there had been no violation of the new 
law. 

"This lecture on 'Panama,' " said Mr. Grossman, "was "cer- 
tainly an educational feature in the performance, as required by 
the Doull ordinance. We will fight this case to the end and we 
feel sure that we are going to win." 

Among those arrested in Manhattan were Bernard Supple, 
ticket taker; Frank Gray, electrician, and Edward Cullinan and 
John Glass, ticket sellers, at a moving picture show in No. 1498 
Third avenue; Abe Newman and George Gaa, managers at No. 
155 East Broadway; Joseph M. Goldstein and Harry Hosin, 
managers at No. 43s East Broadway. 

Samuel Truman, at No. 8 Bowery, had obtained an injunc- 
tion, but when the police saw the moving pictures they disre- 
garded it and arrested him. An injunction was disregarded also 
in Brooklyn, when Morris Reisman, manager of a moving pic- 
ture show at No. 1 155 Broadway, was arrested. Other arrests in 
Brooklyn were: 

Thomas E. Finn, John Callahan and Thomas O'Hara, at the 
Majestic Theater; George Candl and Edward Senbert, at No. 
837 Broadway; Charles Spriemer, No. 388 Court street; Abraham 
Halprin, No. 604 Broadway; John Fitzgerald, at Blaney's 
Theater. 

At all these places moving pictures were being shown. The 
police also stopped a public ball at No. 91 Grand street and 
arrested the manager, John Travis. At both the Majestic and 
Blaney's the police made two visits, afternoon and evening. All 
the prisoners secured bail. 

The regular .concerts- were given at the 'Metropolitan and 
Manhattan Opera houses, and the Symphony concert at Carnegie 
Hall. Dance halls and skating rinks were not interfered with, 
although many "of the larger ones did not try to open. Scores 
of moving picture shows were kept closed. 

The great trouble of the day was the scarcity of "educational" 
performers. So few were the acts that could be put on under 
the new Sunday Amusement law that Oscar Hammerstein, Keith 
& Proctor and Percy Williams started an exchange plan and 
hurried the performers from theater to theater in autos. 

The^ transfer of performers among the downtown theaters 
caused many amusing incidents. When the managers came to 
look over the acts they had to draw from, they discovered that 
from twenty-five to fifty per cent, could not be used. Therefore 
Hammerstein's Victoria, Percy Williams's Colonial and Keith 
& Proctors Twenty-third Street theaters combined. 

Corinne, who is a "head-liner" at the Victoria, was put on 

second, and then hurried to the Twenty-third street house. 

Fields and Ward rushed from the Victoria to the Colonial, and 

; Howard and Howard to the Twenty-third Street The_ illness 

of Marie Lloyd, who 'was billed at the Twenty-third Street, 

I added to the troubles of that house. 



At Keith & Proctor's Fifth avenue house "The Passion Play" 
in pictures had been advertised, and was given, protected by an 
injunction. Bob Webb, a former detective sergeant, and now 
tenor in the Big City Quartette, sang five hymns as the pictures 
were shown. 

Justice Greenbaum to-day renewed Keith & Proctor's injunc- 
"tion restraining Commissioner Bingham from interfering next 
Sunday with the performance at the Fifth Avenue Theater. 

Performers were brought in from nearby cities where there 
are no Sunday shows. They came to town, worked afternoon 
and evening for double prices, and returned late at night, with 
fares paid both ways. 

Among the places in the Tenderloin that were protected by 
injunctions were Tammany Hall, Teutonia Hall, Shepard's Mov- 
ing Picture Show in the Manhattan Theater, which did a big 
business; JEden Musee, Lyric Hall and Fiss, Doerr & Carroll's 
skating rink, in Twenty fourth street. 

On the East Side injunctions had been secured by the Murray 
Hill Lyceum, Maennerchor Hall, Terrace Garden, the Palm - 
Garden, in Fifty-eighth street, New Plaza Assembly Rooms, 
Tuxedo Hall and the Yorkville Casino. 

Some of the smaller places were open, and when the police 
tried to buy tickets they were informed that it was an "invitation 
affair." So it was, but the invitations were delivera ■ by the 
managers to their friends, who sold them to their friends. 

The Imperial Lyceum at Fifty-fifth street and Third avenue 

was closed twice and the crowd driven into the street. Some of 

the small dance halls ran with shades down and were not dis-f 

i turbed. - : 

A "sacred" concert was given at the Dewey Theater, in Fourr 
teenth street, at Conrad's German Theater, in Irving place, and 
at the Murray Hill Theater. At the Yorkville Theater a show 
was put on, but most of the audience left before it was over. ■ 

Most of the star performers were able to appear in some kind 
of an act. At the Colonial May Irwin did her regular "turn," 
and Robert Hilliard gave a recitation. The Empire City Quar- 
tette and the Romany Opera Company also appeared. At the 
New York Theater Louis Mann, Fred Niblo and Josephine Cohan 
appeared. At the Victoria, besides Corinne, and Fields and 
Ward, the audience heard Billy Gould, Frank Bush and others. 

Percy Williams summed it all up, saying: 

"If the people of this city don't want Sunday shows, then I 
don't know anything about it. This is the. worst show night in 
the year — the Sunday before Christmas — and yet, with the shows 
we are allowed to give, we are drawing very good, houses." 

* * * 

THE SUNDAY TROUBLE. 
..«•■' New York. 

The Harlem Comedy Theater in West 125th street endeavored 
to brave the policemen, and Captain Walsh, of the East 126th 
street precinct and his men made several arrests there. Three 
arrests had been made there the previous Sunday. _ Supreme 
Court Justice Marean in Brooklyn issued an injunction on .the 
application of Solomon Brill and William Fox, of the Greater 
New York Film Rental Company, proprietors of the place. Cap- 
tain Walsh received a "copy of the injunction, but he asserted 
it covered only a place run by the men in Brooklyn. Their 
lawyers advised them, however, it also was broad enough to 
cover their Harlem place. Walsh investigated the license for 
the Harlem place and found it was in the name of Louis Rosen- 
bluth and that the names of Brill and Fox did not appear. 

"Make arrests .there if they attempt to open," Inspector 

Thompson said when Captain Walsh reported the situation to 
him. - 

Papers in contempt proceedings which had been issued against 
Captain Walsh by Justice Marean were served on. the policeman 
on Saturday. Despite that, when the theater opened Patrolman 
Hession arrested Edward Harris, 17 years old, of No. 233 Di- 
vision street, the cashier. That arrest did not serve to close the 
place, and ten minutes afterward it was in full blast again. 
Detectives arrested John Beskind, another cashier; Eugene Hun- 
nenden, who was taking tickets, and Joseph Patti, who was 
working a moving picture machine. Warning was served there 
would be further arrests if necessary. The owners of the place 
were defiant, and half an hour afterward Henrietta Kelly, cash- 
ier ; John Burns, ticket taker, and Otto Getti, moving picture 
machine operator, were taken to the police station. Two uni- 
formed policemen then were stationed in front of the place. 
They warned the pleasure-seekers not to enter. 

* * * 

Canon William Sheafe Chase, of Christ P. E. Church, who 
has been one of the most persistent fighters against Sunday theat- 
ricals, made this statement this morning: 

. "Alderman Doull's ordinance will give legal opportunity for 
the vaudeville theatres and the moving picture shows to open 
on the Sunday before Christmas. The ordirance will rot «tand 



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seen 4he Merry Widow ? 

No? Can't goft seats? 

■What would you say if you Siad. it for 

your NicReSodeon ? 

Can't be done? Exclusive rights? 

GUESS AGAEK. 

The Kalem Company bas a i.ooo ft. production, done 
by the original Viennese Cast as follows: 

. Die Lustige HSitwe* 

(THE MERRY WIDOW) 

Operetta in three acts by Victor Leon and Leo Stein. 
Music by Franz Lehar. 

CAST OP CHARACTERS: 

Baron Mlrfco Zeta, pontevedrlnlscher Oesaodter In Paris. 

.Cart riant bey 
Valcnclenne, seine Qemablln .... Charlotte D'AvIa 

Oral Oanilo Danilov/Hscb, aesandtschofta-Sekretaer, Mary Lance 
Donia, elae iunze Witwe . . . . . . Nelly Morean 

Camilla de Rcolllon .• , \ flax Ketaer 

Vicocite Cascade < Franzoaiacbe Cavallere > Otto Boedecfcer 
Raoul de St. Brioche ' ' Willy Scboellcr 

Kromow, pontevedrlnlscher Consul . . Tbeodor Wlttelo 

Olga, seine OeraahPn, . . . . . nslfos rtarsit 

Njegus, OesaadtacbaJts-Kanillst bei Zeta . • Karl Schroder 

Accompanying the film will be a complete musical score 
synchronized with the pictures. 

Remember ! this is the first time such a feat has ever been 
attempted in moving pictures — the reigning success of the 
country, the grand New York production about which 
everyone is talking— condensed into a version which can be' 
put on by any house using a pianist and a. singer. 

No extra charge for this big attraction. 

Every Rental Bureau will have a dozen copies or more. 

GET ST FSRST! 



in law because contrary to section 263, of the Penal Code, it 
attempts to legalize labor and business, on Sunday, which is 
unnecessary and not a work of charity. If the ordinance passes, 
New York City will have a good many more blue Sundays, 
because we shall probably cause an injunction to be served upoj, 
the police to restrain them from obeying the law until its con- 
stitutionality has been settled, and that usually takes some time 
When its unconstitutionality has been declared by the courts, 
then my plan for a liberal Sunday would be adopted, for it 
grants all in the way of concerts and lectures and recitations 
that Mr. Doull's ordinance permits, using almost the same lan- 
guage, but forbids effectively unnecessary business, immorality 
and compulsory labor, and provides a commission to interpret 
the law instead of leaving it to the managers of the theaters 
and the moving picture shows or to the police. If Mr. Damrosch 
wants to open his symphony concerts, his only sure way will be 
to help secure the passage of my proposition, for it permits such 
concerts and is constitutional. 

"About the only objection that is made to the Concert Com-, 
mission is that it will reduce the attendance at Coney Island 
Does not everyone want the' immorality at Coney wiped out at 
least on Sundays? The worst result of Alderman Doull's ordi- 
nance would be the opening of the vast number of moving-pict- 
ure shows on Sunday throughout the city on the ground that 
1 indoor entertainments are permitted by his ordinance and that 
Section 26s of the Penal Code, which forbids public shows, was 
meant to forbid only outdoor shows. This is, of course, con- 
trary to decisions of Judges Aspinall, Maddox and Kelly, but 
they would probably be able to persuade some one Supreme 
Court Judge like Judge Marean to decide with them and thus 
obtain permission from the police to open and continue business 
for a while. These iniquitous moving-picture shows are drawing 
the children from the Sunday Schools and ruining them. 

"We are relying upon all patriotic citizens who want decent 
concerts on Sunday to let their Alderman and the President of 
the Board of Aldermen know what they think about this matter 
before next Tuesday afternoon. We -want to save the day from 
business greed and compulsory labor. In this battle, graft is 
arrayed against godliness. Graft has able, legal, cunning and 
astute politicians in its employ, but the laboring people and the 
general public is not so easily deceived as in former years." 

* * * 

Mayor McClellan signed the Doull Sunday amusement ordi- 
nance, and as it takes effect immediately it and the Penal Code 
will govern the conditions under which entertainments may be 
held in the city on Sunday. Mayor McClellan had ten dav-5 
in which to act on the bill, but he said that he had signed it 
promptly because public sentiment seemed to favor such an 
amendment to the existing law and because he could see no. good 
reason for delay. He had not deemed it necessary to~ hold a 
public meeting before signing the measure ■ for the reason that 
all the arguments for and against it had been fully threshed 
out in the hearing held by the Aldermen and in the debates of 
the board. 

The Mayor signed the ordinance after receiving this opinion 
from Corporation Counsel Pendleton: 

"I am in receipt of your request for an opinion as to whether 
the ordinance adopted by the Board of Aldermen at its last 
meeting, commonly called the Sunday ordinance, contravenes the 
provisions of the Criminal Code of the State. In reply I beg 
to say that in my opinion it does not. The ordinance in question 
allows on Sunday 'sacred or educational, vocal # or instrumental 
.concerts, lectures, addresses, recitations and singing, provided 
that such above mentioned entertainments shalLbe given in such 
a manner as not to disturb the public peace of an:ount to a se- 
rious interruption of the repose and religious liberty of the 
community.' These matters properly construed are not, in ray 
opinion, prohibited by the sections of the Penal Code in question." 

As soon as the theatrical managers learned that Mayor Mc- 
Clellan had signed the ordinance they started in to arrange their 
programmes for Sunday night. All said that they would comply 
with the law in every respect and would not attempt to put on 
any act that would conflict in the slightest degree with the ordi- 
nance. t .. m 

Moving pictures . of the Passion Play at Oberammergau will 
be given Sunday afternoon and evening at the Fifth Avenue 
Theater. 



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EW VMK CITV 



131 W, 24tfe STREET (Telephone 48i3 Madison) 

Selling Agent, Kleine Optical Co., 52 State St., Chicago 
London Agents: Urban Trading Co., 42 Rupert Street 



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Brooklyn, N. Y. 
Despite the fact that an injunction had been obtained prevent- 
ing the police from interfering with the moving picture, places 
of Brill & Fox at S5q and 893 Broadway, Captain Wormell and 
his detectives, Behlen and Maxwell, went to the' amusement 
places with warrants yesterday afternoon and placed under ar- 
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was made to the action of the police, but there is likely to be 
interesting developments. 

When the prisoners were called in the Manhattan avenue court 
this morning Magistrate Hylan was informed of the injunction 
that had been obtained. Captain Wormell replied the injunction 
only affected one pjace. The complaint against the defendants 
was based on what policemen saw last Sunday night. Argu- 
ment in the case /will be heard on December 30. 

Ever since the injunction was obtained Captain Wormell has 
tried in various ways to interfere with the Sunday performances, 
but. he was prevented from so doing. 

* * * 

. - St. John, N. B. 

Two moving picture theaters, the "Cedar," in the North End, 
and the "Princess " on Princess street, advertised that they 
would give a performance Sunday. From the hundreds which 
collected, it is pretty certain that the shows would have been 
well patronized. The objections of the police, however, caused 
the doors to remain closed. Both houses were prepared to show 
Pathe's "Life of Christ," which they have been showing to large 
houses during the week. 

Circulars were sent out previous to yesterday, advertising the 
performances. Many 'who had no other opportunity to see these 
pictures were pleased with the opportunity, while others looked 
upon it as the entering wedge, which would soon be followed by 
open theaters without sacred pictures. 

Frank Stanton, manager of the Cedar, said that they were 
prepared to divide the receipts of the performance between the 
Protestant and Catholic orphan asylums. The pictures could be 
run at small cost and he had thought it a good opportunity to 
raise a fund, at this season of the year. However, learning 
of police disapproval, he did not open his theater. 

A large crowd collected at the Princess towards opening hour. 
The police, however, were also on hand and they received the 
assurance of George Wesley, the manager, that his theater would 
not be open for business. . 

Detective Killen has, however, reported both Mr. Stanton and 
Mr. Wesley for advertising a Sunday performance contrary to 
the provisions of the new Lord's Day Act. Mr. Stanton is also 
reported for causing circulars to be thrown on the sidewalks 
on King, Dock and Charlotte streets, and Wellington Row, con- 
trary to the. law. 

* * * 

New Britain. — In police court last week Judge Cooper rend- 
ered his decision in the Sunday law case. 

Thomas J. Lynch was " fined $25 and costs. He was found 
guilty on one count, the first, and discharged on the second and 
third. Appeal was taken by Judge Gaffhey, for the defense, and 
bond was fixed at $50. 

The trial of George Hallaby, charged with running a moving 
picture show on Sunday night, December I, was taken up. At- 
torney William F. Delan.ey represented the defense. 

Hallaby was discharged. 

* * * 

\.~ Oswego, N. Y. 

The blow has* fallen and Oswego has joined the great majority 
of the cities of the State which from now on will become coma- 
tose at 12 o'clock, Saturday night, and will not really regain 
consciousness uritll Monday morning. The order has gone forth 
and beginning With a week from Sunday there will be nothing 
doing in the entertainment line. 

HOLD CONFERENCE. 

Mayor Smith. Recorder Bentley and Chief of Police Richard- 
son held a little conference as the result of which the Chief 
warned all moving picture shows to keep their doors locked 
on the Sabbath. All this Fall the Orpheum and the Richardson 
have' had moving picture shows on Sunday evening and have 
shown them to big" houses. Right here is where they stop, and 
people that want to see pictures on Sunday will have to dig up 
the family album and look at the fine historic old heirlooms. 

Mayor Smith said this morning in regard to the new rule : 
"It is a State law and about every city in the State is obeying it 
We think that it is time that we got in line. The Chief will 
warn the proprietors of the various places of this ruling." 

A portion of the proceeds taken in at the Orpheum Theater 
on Sundays during the past Fall and Winter have been turned 
over to the hospital. These sums have been running between 
$25 and $50 per week and the total so far is in- the neighborhood 
of $300. Mayor Smith takes the position that he has no author- 
ity to permit the performance to be held. Mayors in nearly 
all of the cities of the State have taken similar action. 

The annual dinner of the Nassau Country Club is to take place 
at Delmonico's, in Manhattan, on Saturday evening, December 
27. The dinner will be preceded by the annual meeting of the 
club, to be called to order at 7 o'clock. The dinner will be 




DESCRIPTION. 

Humanity demands sentiment-, sympathy, heart in- 
terest and stlrrlns events to appease its nature. They 
like to watch happenings that touch these character- 
istics, and we bore this motto in mind when making? 
our Christmas production "A CHRISTMAS ADOP- 
TION." It would be an Injustice to this story picture 
to try and do it justice in so short a description as 
this card will allow, nevertheless a good Idea can be 
gathered from the following: 

A clever crook secures a job delivering a Xmas tree 
to a fashionable home, when Inside the house he 
secures a plan of same, and by the aid of a little chap 
(our hero) whom he has picked up in the streets and 
kept for the purpose of helping him in his crime, gains 
admission to the home. Their work is disturbed by 
the little girl of the house who hears a noise, and 
thinKing it la Santa ciaus, gets out or bed and comes 
down stairs where the robbery is taking place. The 
burglar is Just about to strike her when the little boy 
interferes; he saves the girl a blow, but gets one for 
his interference. The burglar now conceives the idea 
(besides robbing the house) to kidnap the little girl 
for ransom. Thi3 he does, but he reckons without his 
host, as the little boy also has formulated his plans: 
for when the burglar hands him the ransom note, he 
takes it, but comes back into the room where the lit- . 
•tie girl is tied; he tears up the note, unties the girl, 
takes the stolen goods and quietly leaves. 

The next scene shows the diBtracted mother and 
father telling the police who have now arrived. The 
officers are about to leave when the little boy walks 

in with the stolen plunder and the child. Explana- 
tions follow by the little girl, and our hero la adopted 
into the home and made a brother to the girl he saved. 



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served at 7:45 and is to be followed by 3 vaudeville entertain- 
ment by professionals. 

The special feature of the occasion, however, will be the mov- 
ing picture exhibition' which will follow the vaudeville. The 
pictures are calculated to greatly interest the members of the 
dub. They are made from negatives which were taken at the 
§ club during last Summer. They show club members and visitors 
'on the- golf links, the tennis courts and croquet lawns. There 
is little doubt that the pictures will be well worth seeing, and 
that the thanks of the members will be given to George Dupont 
•Pratt, who took them, and made the exhibition possible. 

* * * 

Bayonne, N. J. — Glass Bros., and., the Bayonne Amusement 
Company have been granted licenses tb operate moving picture 
machines upon payment of the regular fee of $50 a year. 

* * * 

;■ London, December 14. — F. Martin Duncan, lecturing before 
the Royal Photographic Society last night, said that before long 
it might be possible to secure cinematograph records of the 
changes undergone by the parasites in the malarial, typhoid and 
other fevers. Such records would be of the utmost importance 
from the scientific point of view. 

* * * 

The managements of iso five-cent theaters in Chicago were 
notified by Building Commissioner Downey to begin at once 
to place their theaters in a semi-fireproof condition. Mr. Downey 
said many of the theaters were in unsafe buildings. 

"Five-cent theaters located in brick buildings will be required 
to -have fireproof ceilings constructed of steel and asbestos ; 
those in frame buildings will be obliged to have both fireproof 
ceilings and walls," said Mr. Downey. "The boxes inclosing 
the machines must also be fireproof." 

Mr. Downey said that beginning January 1 he would close 
all five-cent theaters in which his order had not been obeyed. 

* * * • 

A display most offensive both to good taste_ and to the rev- 
erence and respect due to the most sacred traditions of Christian- 
ity is given at a moving picture show adjacent to the Imperial 
restaurant on Broadway. It is called "The Life of Christ, and 
purports to show in moving pictures the birth, childhood, con- 
demnation, death on the cross, resurrection and ascension of 
the Savior. 
t Whatever may be said for or against the Oberammergau pas- 
sion play, or even "Parsifal," the display in question-is nothing 
but atrocious vulgarity, which arrives at such a ridiculous stage 
as to make absurd the sacred situations depicted. 

The angels brought into the picture are evidently girls who 
would be appropriate to an Amazon march in a burlesque, and 
the centurions and populace are composed of what are known 
to theater managers as "extra people," the men and women who 
for fifty cents a night carry a spear, or vacillate between Maxc 
Antony and Brutus in their regards. 

The central figure of this travesty of the greatest tragedy 
of the world is depicted by a low^browed man who deals in the 
most approved delsartean gestures, and who can easily be imag- 
ined after having been photographed, taking off his make-up 
and spending his wage on beer and cigarettes. 

The most offensive and inexcusable of the pictures are those 
showing the crucifixion and the Agony. 

The procession to Calvary is wretched in its details. Christ 
is made to indulge in all manner of commonplace theatrical poses 
and gestures, while the Roman soldiers and the Hebrews would 
be discreditable to the stage of the lowest class theater. 

All the details are inexpressibly shocking and repellent. 

An extreme almost-beyond endurance is reached where Heaven 
itself is pictured with the tawdry stage women posing as tri- 
umphant angels blowing the trumpets of praise. 

The only detail of any worth is shown by the sheep guarded 
by the shepherds. The sheep, in their ignorance of the fool 
parts they are made to play, show some little dignity and de- 
cency. 

Even to the irreligious the show must be disagreeable, while 
to those of reverent inclination it is sacrilegious in the extreme. 
— Los Angeles Examiner. 

* * • ; 

Indianapolis, Ind.— An ordinance to give the city building in- 
spector control over the five-cent theater buildings, which Judge 
Whallon, of the Police Court, has said he does not now have, 
is under consideration and will be presented at the meeting of 
the City Council. Building Inspector Thomas A. Winterrowd 
knows what he desires, but wishes to leave the actual form of 
the ordinance to the legal department of the city. • • 

The ordinance proposed will provide, primarily, that the build- 
ing inspector shall have control over the structure of all build- 
ings or rooms used for moving picture exhibits, and that no 
room may be used for such shows that has not been approved 



by the inspector. The outer walls of such a building or room, 
the ordinance will provide, must be of incombustible material 
and the floors fireproof, or, if of joist construction, then of fire- 
proof material between joists. 

ON GROUND FLOOR- 

All moving picture shows must be given on the ground floor, 
according to the proposed ordinance, and may not be run in 
connection with any other business or in a room opening into 
a room devoted to another business. This provision will prevent 
the operation of moving picture shows by saloons, a matter that 
has given the city much trouble. There must be ample exits 
on a main street, with at least an emergency exit opening into 
an alley or a court leading directly to a thoroughfare, and all 
exits must be marked by illuminated signs, with letters at least 
six inches high. 

Precautions for fire safety will be rigidly enforced if Mr. 
Winterrowd's ordinance is enacted. It will require that all the 
electrical wiring shall be .in conformity to the existing national 
code of fire underwriters, and that the picture machines shall 
be set in a fireproof booth. It is proposed further to lessen the 
danger from explosion or mishap from the picture machines by 
providing that the machine operators must be licensed by the 
city, on the payment of a fee, probably $5 'a year, but only after 
passing an examination to be given by a board consisting of the 
,rity building inspector, the electrical inspector and the chairman 
of the City Council committee on public safety and comfort. 
TO MEET NEW CONDITIONS. 

The ordinance with which Mr. Winterrowd proposes to han- 
dle the five-cent theater problem is only one of several which 
he will seek to have passed to meet conditions that have arisen 
or ooints that have been raised since the passage of city's general 
building ordinance, nearly four years ago. Another ordinance 
will provide that all buildings of more than two stories in height 
shall be provided with fire escapes, as well as exit stairways, and 
, that both stairway exits and fire escape entrances on each floor 
shall be plainly marked bv illuminated red signs. 

*A third and minor ordinance will require that all hot air, 
steam or hot water pipes shall be cohered with standard fire- 
resisting covering, either of magnesium carbonite or calcium car- 
bonite, with binders of asbestos fiber, or asbestos fiber and metal 

sheeting. 

* * ♦ 

A breath of Chicago still lingers with us, and each time we 
hear the bass drum it reminds us of the little play time we had 
between 1 and 2 a. m. Sunday morning. The business of the 
admission of members was over, and a little relaxation of nerves 
was necessary. Like a troop of schoolboys, led by Wm. Steiner, 
a party of us rushed to the ballroom ; one was seated at the piano 
and ^began to strum out some music, Alfred Weiss took hold 
of the bass drum, cymbals, and kettle drum and kept good time. 
Steiner caught hold ofrthe Editor, but we were too rusty, so he- 
had to be a wall flower. Then Bachman. Cohen, Kohl, Schwalbe, 
Calnhuff, Cline and several others trod the light fantastic toe 
until the head waiter said: "Sunday law rules here, gentlemen, 

and turned out the lights. 

* * * 

The threatened invasion of Richmond HilL in Queens_ Borough, 
Brooklyn, N. Y., by a moving picture and slot machine estab- 
lishment has been put down by the landlord of the store in 
which the show was to be run, who alleges that the premises 
were sublet to the moving picture man without permission. The 
matter has now resolved itself into a possible lawsuit. 

Frank Libschik, a Richmond Hill business man, was to have 
been the proprietor of the show, which was to have been con- 
ducted at 3202 Jamaica avenue. The building is owned by 
Flushing parties, who are represented by a local real estate 
dealer. 

It appears that the store in question was originally leased 
for three years to a baker, who later sublet it to C M. Griffin, 
a realty dealer, who in turn subleased it to another real estate 
man, who turned it over to Libschik. The latter oaid a months 
rent, and spent, he says, fully $1,500 in getting the place ready 
for his show. All this time, it is said, the owner knew nothing 
of the matter. As soon as he found out, he promptly objected 
to the operating of the show on the ground that he had given 
no authority for subletting the store. Apparently the owner is 
unwilling to lease the place to a moving picture concern. 

The matter has been placed in the hands of a lawyer by Mr. 
Libschik, who is considering a suit to recover the money spent 
in fixing up the place. It is said that he is seeking another lo- 
cation for his show. 

* * * 

Charlottetown, P. E. Island, •has another moving picture house 
which is known as the Nickel.\ They opened on December 4 
with a bumper, house! and are still keeping it up. The hall is a 
cosy one, being in the upper part of a building known as' the 



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Lyceum Theater, and was formerly used as a dance hall. The 

building was formerly the only theater Charlottetown boasted 
of until the Opera House was built, about twelve years ago. 
It is now owned by Mr. Michael Duffy, who has made many 
improvements on it. In fact, now one would not know it was 
the same building. / He has rented it to the Nickel and^ it is 
; nder the management of Mr. Chas. J. Mitchell, who is making 
things hum. Their pictures are conceded by all to be the best 
in town. Mr. Howard Murley sings the illustrated songs and 
Mrs. F. McGuigan furnishes excellent music. Their programme 
changes three times a week. 

* * * 

Montreal, Que., December 18. — Last Sunday Archbishop Bru- 
cliesi issued a pastoral letter calling upon all proprietors of 
moving picture shows to keep their places closed upon Sundays, 
and upon all good Catholics to refrain from patronizing these 
places. The instructions produced no effect whatever. All of 
these places were open and all did a rushing business. It is 
now likely that a civic by-law will be introduced. That it will be 
bitterly fought appears likely inasmuch as these places have in- 
creased at a wonderful rate within the last few months, and there 
must to-day be nearly a hundred in operation, principally in the 
east end of the city. All are apparently making money. 

* * * 

"Closed on account of malicious mischief!" is the sign on the 
door of the Art Nickelodeon at 540 Haight street, San Fran- 
cisco, Cal. Monday afternoon mischievous youths of the neigh- 
borhood broke into the amusement house through an upper win- 
dow and completely wrecked the' place. Seats were broken, the 
piano was smasked and the slides and electric appliances were 
demolished. When the management came to open the place in 
the evening it was found that $300 damage had' been done. 
Eighteen of the boys concerned are known and warrants for 
their arrest were sworn to yesterday. The proprietors of the 
nickelodeon are Fred Sutro and Robert Shaw. 

* ■ * * ■ 

As the result of complaint filed at police headquarters, New 
Orleans, by John Bernadas, proprietor of a* moving picture show 
at 1117 Poydras street, detectives are now looking for* a man 
whose name is given as Williams and who, it is said, was em- 
ployed by Bernadas until a few nights ago. 

According to the story told by Bernadas, when he went to 
his place of business he found the front door open and all his 
mechanical appliance* for producing pictures gone. They were^ 
worth something like $350. 

Williams had charge of the machinery of the place. 

* * * 

Paris. — The lurid moving picture entitled "The Fall of a 
Horse and Carriage Down the Terrible Cliff Known as Hell- 
hole?' is something the public will not see. A Paris cine- 
matographist conceived the brilliant idea of making such a 
picture, and bought an old, worn-out horse and a dilapidated 
carriage for the purpose. These he took to the little island 
of Groix, or Groais, in the Department of Morbihan, west 
coast of France, where the terrible cliff is located. But when 
he ascended the cliff, intending to throw the outfit over the 
edge, while photographers took pictures of the descent, the 
islanders took a hand. They had meanwhile learned the ob- 
ject of the preparations on the top of the cliff, and were filled 
with righteous indignation at the plans of the wretched peo- 
ple from the "City of Light." Rushing upon the strangers, 
they threatened to hurl them into the sea if they persisted in 
"making their picture" as they had intended to do. The men 
fled, amid the howls of the. brave country-folk. 

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Correspondence. 

Gentlemen — Reading in your interesting paper about the opera- 
tors' association, I would only be too glad to belong to such a 
union if they will only make all operators pass an examination 
and to be over the age of ex. There are places over here where 
they employ boys about 14 years of age to operate, on account 
of the cheap labor. I was talking to one the other day, and he 
said to me: "I have quit the Job, but I have fixed the machine 
so that it will not run right." I thought at the time that any 
man employing such as he ought to be fixed. He was employed 
by a manager of one of the Pittsburg film renting firms. I, for 
one, think that something should be done to protect the experi- 
enced operators. I gave up my position on account of the wages 
paid in the town, and if something is not done, before long it 
will be the same all over the country. 

Hoping this meets with your approval, I remain, 

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with yonr pictures. They are losing 
without vaudeville — that is what all the 
managers say. We are bookinsr vaude- 
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pa week, that will change on Thursday and give from four to sis performances 
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Madison, Ind., December 19, 1907. 
Mr. Alfred H. Saunders, 

Editor Moving Picture World, New York City. 
Dear Sir — In your 14th inst. issue, note your editorial, "Some 
Careless Operators." Quote following from same : "His explana- 
tion of the fire was that the friction caused by the rapid passage • 
of the film over the take-up sprocket made the spark which set 
the film afire." 

Want to say there is plenty of room for. a fact in this state- 
ment, which, it seems, many of us have not considered. Do not 
use tobacco nor liquor myself., and previous to becoming a mov- 
ing picture operator was employed by Electric Light and Power 
Company, and have had some experience with wiring buildings. 
Salary induced me to make a change. Am somewhat acquainted 
with National Code and know that absolute insulation is required 
in all cases. 

In regard to picture machines, there is, it does seem, one thing 
the- National Fire Underwriters have failed to note, so far as 
I am informed. It may seem trifling, but it sometimes reaches 
enormous proportions. With the up-to-date, "fireproof ( ?) , 
"hermetically sealed," iron-bound "Leyden jars" the Board would 
put us fellows into, it has made no provision for the' safe dis- 
posal of static electricity, caused by the friction of the celluloid 
film in passing through the machine. 

Now, don't get it into your head that I'm making excuses for 
the tobacco man. In all probability he doesn't know what static 
is. Knowing the high inflammability of film, any sane man ought 
to know better than smoke near it I abhor cigarette fiends and 
booze-fighters. However, it must be remembered that static elec- 
tricity, if not properly disposed of, plays havoc sometimes in 
rather unexpected quarters. Take, for instance, the unexplain- 
able breaking of big belts in some of our factories. Many times 
the cause is traced to the action of static electricity and its results r 
1. e., electrolisis wherever there is moisture. And fire is seen, 
and smoke issues from such breaks, and they always look burnt 

Now, don't judge me a spellbinder, but, with these "improved" 
metal magazines, where the film is entirely enclosed, should the 
spindle holding the reel become insulated from the reel and suffi- 
cient static electricity had accumulated in the film to cause a 
spark to jump from the film to the metal case, there is great 
probability a terrific explosion would follow, owing to the inabil- * 
lty of the accumulating gas to escape. If you don't believe it, just 
put your nose close to a newly unpacked film from your exchange 
and note the stifling gas arising. Now put some film in a sealed 
tomato can and arrange a discharge from a Leyden jar through 
the end of the can to the film, which is also insulated from the 
can, and stand back. You may have to experiment a little to 
gain results, which goes to show that accidents happen from a 
well-grounded cause. Unaccountable always. True enough, there 
is no one so responsible for one's condition as one's self if we 
only knew it. Numerous times, while re-winding film, I have 
received severe shocks right off the reel. Looked for wires 
grounded, but there were none but what were enclosed in fleac^ 
duct. Investigation proved the head of the machine to be abso- 
lutely isolated so far as electrical connection was concerned. 
Must confess that I stumbled onto the cause. One night I was 
re-winding film when my lamp (for illuminating booth) burned 
out Continued to wind in the dark, when I noticed a little blue 
flame traveling from the film to the reel. The film had piled up 
on the wooden center of the reel and had not touched the sides. 
Touched the reel, which is mounted on insulated reel -hanger 
(Edison Ex. model), and "saw a spark and received a shock. 
Saw through it all at once. Since then have had a collector 
convenient to 'my reels and have experienced no further incon- 
venience. You may use this as you like, Mr. Editor. 

Yours truly, 

Raymond Kahn. 



708 



THE MOVING PICTURE WORLD. 



Film Review. 



Gaumont issue this week "The Romance 
of a Fisherman's Daughter." The opening 
scene portrays, two of the principle charac- 
ters of this subject, the fisherman standing 
on the threshold of his home with his 
daughter, a demure but sweet-faced lassie, 
seated on a bench next to the door-step 
mending a net. A traveler approaches and 
requests to be permitted to photograph the 
two. The request is granted and, having 
made the exposure and expressing his 
thanks, the stranger passes on followed by 
the admiring gaze of the maid. A sailor 
coming along the same path is received by 
the father very kindly, but the latter soon 
enters the home leaving the former in the 
company of his daughter. He is evidently 
deeply in love with the maid, for he makes 
his declarations in a very dramatic manner, 
but his attentions are not acceptable and 
she joins her father. Hopeless, he staggers 
on to his quarters. We next see the stran- 
ger at the coast throwing stones into the 
rough sea. The fishermaid passes along 
with a basket of fish bound for the market, 
and as the two meet he presents the finished 
photograph, purchases her lot of fish, and 
as she passes on he throws a kiss and 
watches her longingly. The next scene is 
that of the rough sea-coast with the water 



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dashing itself against the rocks in a mad 
fury. The maid is seated on a large rock 
listlessly gazing out to sea, when our stran- 
ger happens along. He offers his attentions, 
which- she shyly permits. The sailor lad 
seeking the maid -comes upon the two un- 
expectedly, and the sight of the traveler 
making love to the object of his adoration 
causes pangs of jealousy to vibrate his 
frame. He follows them as they pass along 
the rocks and when he comes upon them he 
madly separates them and with a bowie 
knife endeavors to strike the traveler, but 
the maid interposes and receiving the knife 
thrust falls to the rocks apparently mortally 
wounded. Consternation now fills the heart 
of the traveler, and grief-stricken he bears 
the limp form of the maid to her home. 
The final scene is the interior of the .fish- 
erman's home, the daughter is convalescent 
and at her bedside is seated the sad parent. 
The traveler calls to learn the condition of 
the patient, is ushered in and is shortly 
followed by the sailor, who now is remorse- 
ful for his deed and craves the pardon of 
the one he wronged. ' This she grants and 
he is roughly thrust from the room by the 
indignant parent. Our traveler soon ex- 
presses his love, is accepted and receives the 
parental blessing. This is a very touching 
scene. The evening scene at the sea-coast 
is beautifully tinted. 



And "A Red Hot Day." This is a film 
depicting very vividly the # unadulterated 
bliss of a sweltering hot day in a large city. 
Pedestrians are seen on all thoroughfares 
with scarcely enough vigor to retain them- 
selves intact and with absolutely no ambi- 
tion to follow their regular vocations. So 
oppressing are the conditions that in one 
instance a poor mortal blessed with an over- 
abundance of avoirdupois is sompletely li- 
quefied, leaving the garments on the side- 
walk in front of a refreshment parlor. The 
other patrons are horrified, but the quick 
wit of the waiter comes to the fore and he 
immediately produces a large tub, with a 
sponge dips up the water . from the walk, 
throws into the tub the garments, and then 
brings ' into play an electric fan, and -with 
all others aiding to create cool air with 
various appliances the desired result is ac- 
complished as, behold, to our astonishment 
the incarnation of the unfortunate mortal is 
brought about and all continue on their way. 
Farther on we come to a number of tene- 
ment houses where the squalid conditions 
make the suffering more intense. Men and 
women fall in a faint, overcome by the tor- 
rid rays, of the sun, when a shower of rain 
comes to the relief and in blissful glee all 
dance about delighted to be deluged. 

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frmn Carlo Kossi. This is a subject issu- 
trating an incident in the life of a hunter 
in the guest; for game. 

The introductory scene shows us the typi 
cal abode of the hunter in the mountain dis 
trict and tne affectionate leave-taking of the 
hunters astbey start ot^t upon their mission 
We follow^ them as they scale the cliffs and 
ford the mountain torrents, carrying with 
them guns, ammunition, ropes and other ne 
cessary equipment. Reaching a summit they 
scan the" mountain side with the aid of a 
telescope in the search of game, and sight 
ins a mountain goat they are about to dis 
patch him when the animal moves out oi 
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gerous cliffs and down precipitous declines 
until they are again afforded a favorable 
position from which, to pluck off their pre} 
The .unerring -aim of the hunter is awarded 
and we can see the goat, peacefully feeding 
on the mountain side and entirely oblivious 
to the danger to which it is exposed, fall 
and roll down from precipice to precipice 
The hunters are now seen scurying along 
in their anxiety not to lose sight of their 
prize, regardless of the dangers to which 
they are exposing themselves. By means 
Of .a rope one of the men is let down to 
the ledge oh which the carcass of the goat 
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E3-E3 JLaSe Street 
CHICAGO 



ened to "a long pole and borne upon the 
shoulders of the men the homeward journey 
is undertaken. Evening has now set in and 
in the moonlight they stride along with 
careful and steady step, proud of the suc- 
cess of their day's labor. Reaching home, 
the game is conspicuously displayed to the 
admiring gaze of the mistress, who compli- 
ments her spouse very affectionately upon 
his prowess. 

BEN iUR 

Pictures adapted from 
Gen. Lew Wallace's famous book 

FOR RENT OR ON A PERCENTAGE 

E. EICHENLAUB 

CMHlcothe ... Ohio 



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Man who can do good single act for re- 
fined audiences, and ran M. P. machine. 
One show daily. Steady work; sure pay. 
State lowest and "all'' first. Sissy or drunk- 
ard — no. We pay expenses . Answer quick. 

D. S. ES3-, Sox 824 
M1MKEAPOLIS, MINN. 

Situation Y/gmted— Byanexperiencedoperalor; 
can run any kind of machine, and also do electric 
wiring. Indianaor Ohio preferred; can givemitable 
recommendations. HOMER JOHNSON, 1906 Pine 
Street, Fort Wayne, Ind. 

Position Wanted - A * operator, by honest, in- 
■ dustrious young' man, non-Scaoker nor drinker; 
skilled in use of Edison machine; also electrician. 
Salary $15.00. Highest references. FRBD E. 
FERRYMAN, s°+ State Street, Bristol, Tenn.,care 
of Fairyland Theatre. 

Operator — Experienced 4 years; prefers New York 
^iate. Can do own repairing and wiring; also 
machinist. Salary not less than $20. 

JAMES PEARSON, Box 35. Percy, Pa. 

V/antOd— By two experienced operators and repair- 
men, who will be out of employment at the first of 
the year, a position in the Pittsburg district. Both 
are practical electricians and all round mechanic*; 
also have tools for aU repair work. Salary $1500(0 
$35.00 per week. Reference if required. FREDA. 
TAYLOR and ROY E. CONKLE, 8ai 7th Street, 
Beaves Falls, Pa. 




TRUNKS FOR MOVING PICTURE MACHINES 

and CASES to carry 1-2-3-4-5 or 6 Reels 

SOLE MAKERS ~ ~* — ~ 

LEATHEROID MANUFACTURING COMPANY, 

332 Broadway, NEW YORK 




The Imperial Moving Picture Co. 

WM. S, MILLtBEN, Mgr/ ti. 8. 'Pfaoae 184 

301 Hlver Street, Room 304 - Troy, N. Y 

FILM MENTAL SERVICE 

E$ot the Cheapest— but the ©est. 
BVOERVTHINC I BB fl9©W MC PICTURES. 

Power's Camerappfts and leeesssries In Stuck 

Gotoes-sil sizes Msis, mi tpisiitlif 9 en tati. 

WHITS -. — 'PHQ^E ==W1J1R 



ILatont Films 



Good Service 



afional Film Co. 

FIE*M EEMTERS 
100 Gfiswold Street. Detroit, Mich. 

Moving Pictare MacMnes. Parts and Supplies 



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«9 The new Carbon for Movies Picture MacMaes 
Quality Unexcelled 



FROBUUP <H. CO. 
Sole Importers 

235 GsroosawicBt S£z*o<3S s £€2£W 



Films ssid Machine© 

are tbe only reliable, they're guaranteed 
SOLE ACEE3T FOR 

POWER 

Edison's KS§iet®§c®pe§ 

336-333 Spruce St., PhiSadeGphia, Fa. 





of the junk Film Exchanges recently started in this and 
other cities, who offer you first run films at prices that 
are ridiculous. 

Moving picture theatre proprietors by this time have 
become intelligent enough on film rental to know it 
cannot be done. 

The " Destroyers" of the moving picture industry 
know they cannot give you the service they tell you, and 
prove it by the list they send yon, as the newest film on 
. which is six months old. 

They do not buy new films, but gather all the cast-off 
junk of other exchanges, and offer them for $10.00 per 
week, six changes. All they expect and get is one 
week's film rental from you in advance, as they know 
they can only fool you for the money you advanced them. 

Remember: Everything finds its worth, and so 
it does in the film business. Don't be hoodwinked by 
these "Fakirs'" any longer, but get your service from 
some reliable bouse (as tbfere are plenty of them) whom 
you know will not deceive you. 

The old saying that the best is the cheapest is proven 
more in this business than in any other known of. 

Remember* H y° u I°°k for something you will 
be ••stung." 



PITTSBUR6 CALCIUM LIBIT & Fill 60. 

Don't forget our Western Branch, Des Moines, la. 




want what you want, and 
when you want it." We can supply it — 
Swanson Service. If you are not a 
subscriber for our service write us 
immediately and allow us to make' you 
our confidential quotations for first- 
class up-to-date films, unlimited sub- 
jects to select from. 

77 & 79 South Clark St., CHICAGO, ILL. 

Branch Houses, 813)^ Chestnut Street, St., St. Louis, Mo. 
and 630 Commercial Place New Orleans, La. 



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A E&KB OFPOBTUNETY— Having just secured from a, 
well-known manufacturer their entire surplus stock, we 
are offering the same for sale at an unprecedented low 
price. Bear in mind these are not second-hand films, 
and are all bright, snappy subjects. 

Exchange 

WILL C. SMITH, Mgr. 

7 EAST l^eS* STSEET - HEW TORSS 



EVERYTHING IN THE MOVING PICTURE LINE 

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We want to furnish yonr 



service for 1908 and we are going to get it if the best 
films in America at the right prices will secure it. 

Everything identified -with the moving picture business 
carried in stock ready for prompt shipment. 

Pathe's Life of Chri6t, Ben Hur and Parsifal rented 
reasonable. ' 

O. T. CRAWFORD FILM EXCHANGE CO. 

Gayety Theatre Building, St Louis, Mo. 



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and Films 




The MOTIGGRAPH No. 



Model 190S 




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The Latest— The 2m 
FlicEeriess Pictures— Steady Picmres— Brilliant Pictures 



Designed, built tnd especially adapted 
for the heavy and exacting work of the 




aawaUas&e 
require- 
ments of the 
travel inj ex- 
hibitor. 

T&e Now 
Cone Shut' 
tar eaveo 30 

to 45$ of the 
non-expos- 
ure. Fiidiej 
eliminated. 

Hoe New 
Quick Sh'Jt 
Rewte^.The 
film is re- 
wound in 2 

minutes from the main crank without re- 
moral of reels or magazines, ^- 

The Automatic Safety Fire-proof 
Shatter u the only one that is safe and 
reliable. 

5tlde Carrier Swiss saves one-third of 
the light, hence so ranch brighter pictures. 

AU V/orklcs Parts Enclosed saves care 
and wear and gives better results. Ma- 
chine will last twice as long. 

A Steadier Picture because accurately 
made. 

Has a perfect Tafce-up that's different 
from the others. 

ArC Lamp with all hand wheel adjust- 
ments; result— better pictures. 

Has LW-Oif V/ldo Open Lamp House. 
Both side and top full open. 

ts especially adapted for use 
with Motor. 

ts entirely fire-proof. 



It Is simple, strong, 
rigid, artistic and dur- 
able, and projects a 
picture that is astou- 
bhingly better than 
other machines. 

It furnished with the 
Gibraltar Swlveled 
Adjustable Iron Pedes- 
tal Stand. Solid as a 

rock— picture 

projected" where. 

you want it. 
If you have a 

machine, throw 

it out and install 
the Motiograph. 
The investment 
is about 50 cents 
per day for one 
year. Equal to 
twelve new pat- 
rons or twelve 
present ones re- 
tained, figure it 
either or both ways. 
We are also agents fur the Model B 
Calcium Oss Outfit, which is almost in- 
dispensable to the Traveling Exhibitor, 
ana a great emergency convenience to 
th« 5 Cent Theatre in the absence of 
electricity. 

Tho New Interchangeable Chrorno- 
trope Announcement is a Five Cent 
Theatre novelty of great value. 

Our New Skeleton Double Dissolviag 
Stereopttcon, with right angle arc lamp 
for dissolving song elides should be 
made a port of every Five Cent Theatre 
equipment. 

v\ E SELL ALL MAKES of Motion 
Picture Machines, and everything re- 
quired by the optical projectionist. 

Send for oar Big Cos»- 
plota Catalog. It's Free. 



Asnusosnerat Supply Co. 133 Chemical BanH Bldg., Chicago 



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LATEST FEATURE SUBJECTS 

LAUGHING 



B»iS«w«aip»ia»»GMa»i»aVi*«W*ia«i< I a ., - 



No. 6336 



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Leestb, S7S feci 



Class A 



Price, S86.2S 



For complete synopsis send for circular No. 



?g3E "usee-ST ©g§?©g?n Christinas 

No. 6225 Code, Vatertaell Length, 8C0 feet Clans A 

Price, S120.00 For complete synopsis send for circular No. 

PARSIFAL 

Richard Wagner's (Masterpiece 

No. 6049 Code, Veqoant Length, i ,970 feet 

Special Price 5335.73 For complete synopsis send for circular No. 333 

GOLLEGE GHUR9S1 

No 633S Code, Veeawertel Length, 700 feat Class A 

Price, 8105.00 For complete synopsis send for circular No; £23 

OTHER FEATURE FILMS: 

No. 6228— THBBB AMERICAN B8AUTIBS, No. 2 (Band Colored 

Complete)* Cede, Veaabaa* 85 Feet Price 524.50 

For complete synopsis send for circular No. 337 

No. 6334-THE TRAINER'S DAUGHTER Class A Code, Veen. 

werlcsr 800 Feat Price 3123.00 

tor complete synopsis send for circular No. 338 

No. 6333— MIDNIGHT RIDE OP PAUL RBVBRE Class A Code, 
Veenwator 918 Feet Prtes £137.23 

For complete synopsis send for circular No. 334 

No. 6332— JACK THE KISSER Class A Code, Veenrook 

758 Peat Price $1 13.28 

For complete synopsis send for circular No. S31 

No. 6331— A RACB FOR MILLIONS Class A Code, Veea&rond 

974 Feet Price 9146.25 

For complete synopsis send for circular No. 823 

No. 6330— THB RIVALS Class A Code, Vacogrraver 

7S0 Feei Pries $117.00 

For complete synopsis send for ciruular No. 827 



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UNDERWRITERS' MODEL 



Price, $175.00 



Jntiwedl Ly tlia Uot? 7o?U Board of Eire IMamriccra 
and the Department of Water Sappl7. Gas and Electricity 

Includes, among other improvements, a new Automatic Shutter, Im- 
proved Lamphouse, Upper and Lower Film Magazines, New Style Rheo- 
stat. New Enclosed Switch, Improved Take-np Device, New Revolving 
Shutter and Asbestos-covered cord connection.' 

EDISON EXHIBITION MODEL - $115.00 

SAME wlt6 FILM HA6AZIHE and IMPROVED TAKE-UP 135.00 



EDISON UNIVERSAL MODEL 



75.00 



Any exhibition model can be fitted with the Underwriters' improve- 
ments at small cost. Complete catalogue, describing all models and parts, 
with prices, sent on request. 

EDISON MANUFACTURING COMPANY 

MAIN OFFICE AND FACTORY: 
72 Lakeside Avenue, Orange, N. J. 



NEW YORK OFFICE 
CHICAGO OFFICE - 



10 Fifth Avenue 
304 Wabash Avenne 



OFFICE FOR UNITED KINGDOM: 
25 Clerkenwell Road, London, E. C, England 

SELLING AGENTS: 

The Kinetograph Company, 41 East 21st Street, New York. 

George Beck, 550-554 Grove Street, San Francisco, Cal 

DEALERS IN ALL PRINCIPAL CITIES 



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instruments and reap the big reward that is sure to fpllow..... Write for full descriptive matter* 

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Cuts your electric bills in half; We guarantee this. Install one now. 

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Most perfect fire extinguisher ever manufactured; retails for $iay$o. " "We ^ant/My'P, men 

everywhere to act as agents. Write for terms. /VT^^^b^gi 

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